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Art, Literature, and Media in Deaf Culture - Coggle Diagram
Art, Literature, and Media in Deaf Culture
Arts
Many prominent Deaf artists, like Regina Olson Hughes, Matt Daigle, Christine Sun Kim, Douglas Tilden, and Natasha Ofili.
De'VIA, stands for Deaf View/Image Art, where Deaf artists specialize in creating artwork rooted in Deaf culture
What separates Deaf artists from hearing artists is the increase in Deaf people's extraordinary ability to sense shades of sight and touch
Performing Arts
Deaf theater goes as far back as 1817, but existed before that among Deaf Indigenous Americans
1967, the National Theater of the Deaf was established. Its performances would use Deaf actors on stage and hearing actors/readers in the background so both Deaf and hearing people in the audience can appreciate it equally
Founded in 1991, Deaf What Theater (DWT) was the first professional region sign language theater in the western half of the US. Spring Awakening was the first play to include a wheelchair Broadway performer, and the first time Broadway provided interpreting for DeafBlind people
Protactile theater: the goal of creating DeafBlind theater using protractile was to challenge typical theater norms in which they are exclusionary and prohibitive for DeafBlind patrons
Many Deaf actors in television and movies
Deaf music often integrates visual and tactile rhythmic elements. Deaf music incorporates a lot of drums and percussion so they can feel the music through vibrations. It stimulates the same area of the brain where hearing people hear music
Literature
ASL literature includes works of art that are composed in ASL and play on the linguistic structure of ASL in the genres of poetry, narratives, and drama by Deaf authors
Deaf literature includes works of art that are written in English and utilize the linguistic structure of English for artistic effect in the genres of poetry, narratives, and drama by Deaf authors
Common themes of discovery and development of a Deaf identity as a source of pride for the Deaf community, or theme of Deaf people who compete and come out on top over hearing people
Shows Deaf people to be somewhat bilingual in ASL and English, as well as bicultural and/or multicultural
Media
Media arts include photography, cinematography, comics, cartoons, digital art, computer graphics, animation, background and set artists, robotics, 3D printing
In digital arts and photography, enhancements are noticed because Deaf people use their eyes to see and listen
Identified techniques in Deaf cinematography are visual rhythm, visual representation of sound, visual representation of hearing people, deaf views of deaf self, and emphasizing story elements
Identifying marks of many deaf and hard-of-hearing artists are the use of bold and contrasting colors, contrasting textures and emphasis on facial features