Cinematic Prophylaxis : Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health /

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A timely contribution to the fields of film history, visual cultures, and globalization studies, "Cinematic Prophylaxis" provides essential historical information about how the representation of biological contagion has affected understandings of the origins and vectors of disease. Kirsten...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ostherr, Kirsten, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Krankheit > Motiv
Science-Fiction-Film
Gesundheit > Motiv
Science fiction films.
Diseases in motion pictures.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Attitudes à l'egard de la sante.
Promotion de la sante.
Épidemies > Prevention.
Films de science-fiction > Histoire et critique.
Maladies au cinema.
Health Promotion
Motion Pictures as Topic
Medicine in the Arts
Internationality
Health Promotion > methods
Attitude to Health
Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control
Health promotion.
Epidemics > Prevention.
Health attitudes.
Science fiction films > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Cinema and hygiene
  • Public sphere as Petri dish; or, "Special case studies of motion picture theaters which are known or suspected to be foci of moral infection"
  • "Noninfected but infectible" : contagion and the boundaries of the visible
  • From inner to outer space: world health and the postwar alien invasion film
  • Conspiracy and cartography: mapping globalization through epidemiology
  • Indexical digital : representing contagion in the postphotographic era.

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