Signing the body poetic :  essays on American Sign Language literature / 
H.-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose, editors ; with a foreword by William C. Stokoe and a preface by W.J.T. Mitchell. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  �2006. 
 - xxviii, 264 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm +  1 videodisc (DVD : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.) 
<br/><br/> "Includes DVD." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose -- Face-to-face tradition in the American deaf community : dynamics of the teller, the tale, and the audience / Ben Bahan -- The camera as printing press : how film has influenced ASL literature / Christopher B. Krentz -- Deaf American theater / Cynthia Peters -- Getting out of line : toward a visual and cinematic poetics of ASL / H.-Dirksen L. Bauman -- Textual bodies, bodily texts / Jennifer L. Nelson -- The poet in the poem in the performance : the relation of body, self, and text in ASL literature / Heidi M. Rose -- ASL literature comes of age : creative "writing" in the classroom / Liz Wolter -- "If there are Greek epics, there should be deaf epics" : how protest became poetry / Kristen C. Harmon -- Visual screaming : Willy Conley's deaf theater and Charlie Chaplin's silent cinema / Carol L. Robinson -- Hearing things : the scandal of speech in deaf performance / Michael Davidson -- Afterword / Carol A. Padden -- Appendix A: Time line of ASL literature development -- Appendix B: ASL video references. 
<br/><br/> The accompanying DVD ... "showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the first time.--co-publisher's website. Listing of all video clips on the DVD on p. xi-xii. 
<br/><br/><br/>Accompanying DVD playable on NTSC and PAL DVD players. 
<br/><br/><br/>Accompanying DVD in American Sign language with English subtitles and/or voiceover. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520229754 9780520229754 0520229762 9780520229761 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006016236 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA659089  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013504696  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American Sign Language literature.<br/>Deaf authors.<br/>Theater for deaf people.<br/>Visual literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Educational.<br/>Performance.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV 2353  / .S53 2006