Portrayal of d/Deaf People in Cinematography

The bachelor's thesis analyzes the topic of deaf people and deafness in feature-length motion pictures made by hearing directors. At the beginning of this thesis the author focuses on the terminology concerning deaf people, the relationship between art and deaf people and deafness, brief history of cinematography with the accent on important events concerning deaf people and deafness and then the author focuses on influence of movies on public opinion with the accent on terms stereotype, prototype and myth. Author afterwards focuses on analysis of the selected sample of movies. There are two types of analysis in this thesis, first one looks into purpose of the topic in those movies, the second one analyzes chosen movies in detail. The second analysis ends with comparison and evaluation of those movies. The purpose of this thesis is to make first insight into the topic of deaf and deafness in feature-length motion pictures made by hearing directors