"The Art of Stimming: Reconsidering Screen Performance and Autism"

这个项目的重点是自闭症在电影中的表现，以及神经典型演员如何通过一系列身体行为使这种看不见的残疾变得明显。它将研究自闭症特征的核心是“刺激性”，但也将调查它的“没有感情”的反义词如何成为文化上接受的自闭症表演的一部分。借鉴银幕表演的理论来重新思考神经多样性的表现，它还将通过自传民族志质疑，承认其他银幕表演模式与自闭症的经历产生共鸣意味着什么--这必然会挑战传统的(规范的)电影观看模式。

This project focuses on the performance of autism in film and how neurotypical actors make this invisible disability visible through a series of physical behaviours. It will examine 'stimming' as central to the characterisation of autism, but will also investigate how its 'emotionless' inverse has become part of a culturally accepted repertoire in the performance of autism. Drawing upon theories of screen performance to rethink the representation of neurodiversity, it will also question, through autoethnography, what it means to recognise other modes of screen performance as resonating with the experience of autism- necessarily challenging traditional (normative) models of film spectatorship.