Through Deaf Eyes Film Analysis
The film Through Deaf Eyes demonstrated a great understanding of the death community. I found this short film extremely educational as well as informative of the Deaf culture and its people. This film opened my eyes and broaden my education in the Deaf culture. Growing up I never came into the situation of interacting with someone who was Deaf, before my ASL class I had absolutely no idea that there was such a rich and interesting history in the Deaf community. I found this movie to be extremely moving, and assist me in my career as a student as well as a young professional in the work force. While watching the film Through Deaf Eyes I found myself generally engaged in all information that was presented to me. One piece of the film that did stick out to me was the way public schools were teaching Deaf children. I was shocked how people could have thought a person who was born Deaf could learn how to speak. The techniques of how educators would place the Deaf students hand on his or her neck to feel the vibrations that were being generated by the speaking persons’ mouth. In return, the educators thought that learning how muscles and vibrations differ within the head and neck region when sound is made can somehow teach a Deaf
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student how to talk or to use their vocal cords accordingly. I was also shocked when I learned how the United States Sega grated black and white Deaf people from each other. This was information that I have never learned in history classes in grade school or in my college career. I was as well taken back when I learned that many Deaf people were ashamed or even scared to Sign in public back in the 1950’s and even earlier. I was shocked how people could of thought that Sign language was something that should not be done in public as if it was “weird” or “odd.” Due to this insecurity of signing, many people in the Deaf community would Sign below tables and their wastes to hide their so called shame. The film Through Deaf Eyes educated its audience extremely well about the Deaf culture and its people.
As stated before, not knowing anything about the Deaf culture I was committed to learning as much as I could through this short film to expand my knowledge in the Deaf culture. I learned through the film that people who are Deaf have absolutely no problem with not being able to hear and having to talk using Sign Language. The Deaf communities do not consider being Deaf as flawed or even disabled, but believe they were born Deaf for a reason. The Deaf communities consider Sign Language as their own culture or even heritage - just like any other heritage that may practice their own language with others of the same
culture.
student how to talk or to use their vocal cords accordingly. I was also shocked when I learned how the United States Sega grated black and white Deaf people from each other. This was information that I have never learned in history classes in grade school or in my college career. I was as well taken back when I learned that many Deaf people were ashamed or even scared to Sign in public back in the 1950’s and even earlier. I was shocked how people could of thought that Sign language was something that should not be done in public as if it was “weird” or “odd.” Due to this insecurity of signing, many people in the Deaf community would Sign below tables and their wastes to hide their so called shame. The film Through Deaf Eyes educated its audience extremely well about the Deaf culture and its people.
As stated before, not knowing anything about the Deaf culture I was committed to learning as much as I could through this short film to expand my knowledge in the Deaf culture. I learned through the film that people who are Deaf have absolutely no problem with not being able to hear and having to talk using Sign Language. The Deaf communities do not consider being Deaf as flawed or even disabled, but believe they were born Deaf for a reason. The Deaf communities consider Sign Language as their own culture or even heritage - just like any other heritage that may practice their own language with others of the same
culture.