Abstract
In 2015, Jean-Pierre Améris brought the life of Marie Heurtin (1885â1921), a deaf-blind French woman, on the big screen. Amérisâ biographical film tells the story of a girl who first developed an understanding of linguistic signs and communication at the age of ten. Focusing both on the filmâs aesthetic-narrative level and its medical-historical dimension, this article aims to delineate the potential of films as an aesthetic mass medium to convey notions of deafblindness to a general public; beyond that, I will analyze and discuss the views on deafblindness in children that become apparent in the context of Heurtinâs biography.
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