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Due Dilligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant

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posted on 2023-05-22, 19:51 authored by Dominic LennardDominic Lennard

Complications of social cooperation dominate fictional landscapes, just as they dominate our real world. We are constantly meeting people very unlike ourselves, indeed even strange, in our view, with whom we sense the need to cooperate and converse. But learning is crucial in such encounters, and fiction provides a safe yet intriguing avenue to facilitate this.

History

Publication title

Autism in Film and Television: On the Island

Editors

M Pomerance and R Barton Palmer

Pagination

201-214

ISBN

9781477324936

Department/School

Office of the University College

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Publication status

  • Published

Place of publication

Austin, Texas

Extent

19

Rights statement

Copyright 2022 University of Texas Press

Socio-economic Objectives

130204 The media, 230101 Ability and disability

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