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In this paper author characterizes informal adult education about physical disability in popular films. In postmodernism, one’s informal education takes place in everyday life, in social context or during free- time activities; it refers to process of learning, not teaching. Popular culture as omnipresent part of cultural practices may be perceived as a field of informal adult education. Texts of popular culture have powerful influence on shaping trends, promoting certain lifestyles and desirable looks – they socialize the postmodern human. Film as an audiovisual form of artistic display and a text of popular culture may be analyzed as a medium of informal education – movies are perceived as alternative source of experience and knowledge – “moving images” have become “a tutorial of life”. Physical disability is not a popular theme for movies. Media imagery of disability is dominated by stereotypes and prejudices. According to Colin Barnes, a disable person is presented as: pitiable and pathetic, sinister, curio, object of ridicule or violence, his/her own worst and only enemy, burden, sexually abnormal, incapable of participating fully in community life, “super-cripple” and, the most proper, as a normal person. The author presents opinions of 7 adult viewers collected in individual interviews after the projection of the film My Left Foot. The viewers perceived the physically disabled protagonist as: a (disabled) man of success, a rogue, a super-human struggling with obstacles, an artist, a genius and normal person. Moreover, viewers interpreted the film meaning on different levels of understanding, they described the plot, identified abstract and moral message, referred the story of protagonist to their biography and read the hidden meaning of the movie.
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