Bridget Klein grew up in Wisconsin and moved to New York to enroll at Keuka College’s baccalaureate degree program in American Sign Language. After receiving her degree, she attended Gallaudet University to receive her masters degree in Deaf Studies, concentrating in sign language teaching and cultural studies. Bridget taught language and culture at Bloomsburg University's Interpreter Training Program for two years. Currently Bridget is studying anthropology for her PhD at American University.
ASL Cinema: an exploration of a Genre
ASL Cinema, a genre in itself, is the combination of two visual languages: American Sign Language and film cinema. ASL Cinema is done by taking ASL literature (poems, stories, handshape or A-Z stories) and enhancing them by using different parts of film production, including camera angles, lighting effects, editing and special effects. One would need to have knowledge of rules of ASL literature and production skills to be able to bring them together. This ability has proven successful in my two films, The Unnoticed Life and Hitchhiker. Experimenting with production and ASL literature for my thesis in 2007, both films won several Deaf Film Festival awards. The audience recognized and enjoyed this new genre of visual language from film and ASL. In this paper, I will study ASL Cinema as a new genre and the importance of continued experimenting.
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