{"id":4283,"date":"2021-02-06T01:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2021-02-06T01:07:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:07:47","slug":"jared-richman-publishes-essay-on-disability-and-the-kings-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2021\/02\/06\/jared-richman-publishes-essay-on-disability-and-the-kings-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Richman Publishes Essay on Disability and \u2018The King\u2019s Speech\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associate Professor of English Jared Richman has published an essay in <em>Disability Studies Quarterly<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/dsq-sds.org\/article\/view\/7258\/5810\">\u201cThe Royal Treatment: Temporality and Technology in&nbsp;\u2018The King&#8217;s Speech<em>\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em>examines the intersections of class, technology, and disability in&nbsp;the 2010 Oscar-winning movie \u201cThe King\u2019s Speech.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the essay, Richman argues that the film complicates modern scientific and critical understanding of communication disorders by rendering stuttering as a moral failure rather than by attempting to understand it as a socially constructed condition contingent upon established societal and temporal norms. The essay identifies the social codes enforcing correct and eloquent speech that create a political and social climate for \u201ccompulsory fluency,\u201d the socially imperative verbal facility promoted as necessary to participate in public life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With its emphasis on the nobility of the title character, the film masks an inherent tension between media technology and the lingering social stigma surrounding disability, says Richman.\u00a0\u201c \u2018The King\u2019s Speech\u2019\u00a0thus situates compulsory fluency as an essential component of modern kingship,\u201d he writes. By examining the film\u2019s strategic deployment of radio technology alongside its troubled representation of class and its fraught invocation of Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0Hamlet, the essay frames attitudes toward vocal disability within the context of royalty, patriarchy, and national identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of English Jared Richman has published an essay in Disability Studies Quarterly. \u201cThe Royal Treatment: Temporality and Technology in&nbsp;\u2018The King&#8217;s Speech\u2019\u201d&nbsp;examines the intersections of class, technology, and disability in&nbsp;the 2010 Oscar-winning movie \u201cThe King\u2019s Speech.\u201d In the essay, Richman argues that the film complicates modern scientific and critical understanding of communication disorders by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2021\/02\/06\/jared-richman-publishes-essay-on-disability-and-the-kings-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jared Richman Publishes Essay on Disability and \u2018The King\u2019s Speech\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4284,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}