What Bad Movies Can(Not) Teach Us About Disability

Invalid Culture: What Bad Movies Can(Not) Teach Us About Disability Join us in welcoming Jeff Preston, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Chair of Disability Studies at King's University College at Western University, where he teaches classes on disability, popular culture, and policy. The use of disability to win Oscars has been written about ad nauseam, but what about all the other films that represent disability? Invalid Culture is a podcast that invites disability scholars and activists to explore pop culture adjacent films that never quite broke through because, well, they’re just awful. Will these films, free from the chains of profitability and Oscar-baiting offer a different vision of disability? Or will they merely (badly) reproduce common tropes of disability?

Join podcast co-host Jeff Preston as he shares thoughts on diving deep into the abyss of strange films “about” disability and some of the (sometimes remarkable) crip histories behind these texts that often goes unrecorded.