01969caa a2200205 4500 210621s9999 xx 000 0 und d Venkatesan, S Viewer Reminiscences on Portrayals about Personswith Disability in Indian Cinema 2015 Department of Clinical Psychology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006, Karnataka, India 104-112 Volume 6 Issue 10 This exploratory study uses theme based group discussion, brain storming and focus group techniqueson 27non-disabled multi-lingual college students to evoke their reminiscences on depiction of disability in Indiancinema. The corpus of audio/video recordings were subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis by threeindependent mutually blinded observers for latency, duration or time lag of respondent recall, dominant content orthemes, attitudinal valence, perceived cliché and stereotypes about disability in cinema. Response analysis of attributed features for the film characters with disability was undertaken on major themes. The typical ‘pity-sympathy’ dimension of viewing the ‘hero’ as protagonist afflicted with mental illness is the most remembereddepiction by female respondents. The most frequently evoked images, themes, language and terminology continueto reflect dismal, negative, struggling, anguished or aggrieved stereotype of contemporary cinema representationon persons with disabilities. These findings on commercial Indian movies are discussed with implications and justification for greater in-depth systematic research in this area Protagonist. Stereotype. Themes. Media. Films Sanjeev Kumar Gupta Yashodharakumar, G.Y Journal of Communication https://www.academia.edu/14542568/Viewer_reminiscences_on_portrayals_about_disability_in_Indian_cinema FJAS FJAS 17695 17695