There are some videos that have deaf characters or show a silent world or a world where people use gestures. Below is a sampling of some of these videos. A common story that is told in the Deaf community is the planet Eyeth as compared to Earth. Eyeth is a planet of signing deaf people where the hearing is a minority culture. Picture below is entitled "Mission Eyeth" by Warren Miller. The original is in Rosica Hall.
If you need to find a video offsite, this short video shows you how to request an offsite video (ie, building 99). It takes a day or two for the DVD to be delivered to the Library Services Desk, where you can pick it up.
Images of an Invisible Disability by
This book is based on Johnson's reviews of approximately 200 films, made-for-TV movies, TV episodes, or TV series having a character with a hearing disability. Because hearing disability has no external physical manifestation, the challenge to directors and screen writers is to make this invisible disability visible. To that end, film makers have resorted to physical and behavioral stereotypes of deaf and hard-of-hearing characters. Johnson evaluates these cliches according to the actual lived experience of hearing disability, the accessibility of the show to hearing-disabled audiences, and the changes in these factors over the nine decades covered in her filmography.
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