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Isn't He Lovely: Hollywood Adores a Handsome Blind Man

Social Commentary post by CristenConger on October 7, 2011 - 10:49am; tagged blindness, disability, disability in film, film, Hollywood, isn't he lovely, men in film.

film post for scent of a woman with a close up of al pacino's face with downcast eyes and a screen shot of pacino and chris o'donnell arm in arm in the foregroundIf Hollywood gravitates toward a "sexy" disability for male characters, it would have to be blindness. I was recently mulling over how the big screen portrays men of color and with disabilities and realized that blind male characters in movies often aren’t dehumanized or marginalized. They’re downright hot.

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