A Deleuzian reading of James Cameron’s Avatar: The tracks of Sully’s tears: disability in James Cameron’s Avatar by Dana Fore […] Applying the theories of film critic and philosopher Gilles Deleuze to these and other images of the body in Avatar suggests the film promotes a view of disability that is unusually nuanced for a Hollywood blockbuster […]. Avatar’s gallery of disabled, vulnerable, and consistently un-readable bodies transforms the film into an unsettling commentary on war movies, if not on war itself. […]

A Deleuzian reading of James Cameron’s Avatar:

The tracks of Sully’s tears:
disability in James Cameron’s Avatar

by Dana Fore

[…] Applying the theories of film critic and philosopher Gilles Deleuze to these and other images of the body in Avatar suggests the film promotes a view of disability that is unusually nuanced for a Hollywood blockbuster […]. Avatar’s gallery of disabled, vulnerable, and consistently un-readable bodies transforms the film into an unsettling commentary on war movies, if not on war itself. […]