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9781904764168

Signs of Life : Cinema and Medicine

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    9781904764168

  • ISBN10:

    1904764169

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-04-20
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Signs of Life: Medicine and Cinema is the first single volume to consider the cinematic representation of medicine, medical science and the medical profession, and explores the political implications of the representations of doctors, nurses, patients, diseases and disabilities. The essays in this collection, from a wide range of film scholars and medical practitioners, also consider how formal qualities of cinema such as empirical observation, mise-en-sc?ne, propaganda and education, melodrama, documentary and narrative construction impact on our understanding of medical procedures and the public image of medicine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Notes on contributors ix
Foreword xi
Sir Kenneth Calman
Introduction 01(119)
1 Magic bullets, dark victories and cold comforts: some preliminary observations about stories of sickness in the cinema
07(12)
Brian Glasser
2 Birth traumas: medicine, parturition and horror in Rosemary's Baby
19(14)
Lucy Fischer
3 The mainstream AIDS movie prior to the 1990's
33(12)
Kenneth MacKinnon
4 Health education films in Britain, 1919-39: production, genres and audiences
45(13)
Timothy M. Boon
5 Sex, death and stereotypes: disability in Sick and Crash
58(12)
Tom Shakespeare
6 Past imperfect, future tense: the health services in British cinema of the mid-century
70(12)
Andrew Moor
7 Just a story or a 'just story'? Ethical issues in a film with a medical theme
82(10)
M. Roy Jobson & Donna Knapp van Bogaert
8 'Either he's dead or my watch has stopped': medical notes in 1930's film comedy
92(13)
Graeme Harper
9 Angels, battleaxes and good-time girls: cinema's images of nurses
105(15)
Julia Hallam
10 'To catch a star on your fingertips': diagnosing the medical biopic from The Story of Louis Pasteur to Freud 120(12)
Bruce Babington
11 From Let There Be Light to Shades of Grey: the construction of authoritative knowledge about combat fatigue (1945-48) 132(21)
C.A. Morgan III
12 Imitation of life: the politics of the new genetics in cinema 153(13)
Jackie Stacey
Bibliography 166(10)
Index 176

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