Upon its initial release, Freaks was greeted with such revulsion from movie-house audiences that MGM spent the next 30 years distancing themselves as far from the project as possible.

As the Lifetime channel continues with its summer movie line-up, “Miss Cleo: Her Rise and Fall,” will make its debut on Saturday, Aug. 10 at 8 p.m./7 p.m. CT. The presentation will be followed ...

Detractors of “Freaks” and its inherently marginalizing context exist. But its re-evaluation seems to occupy an established place in disability studies that does not have any precise equivalents.