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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ostherr, Kirsten, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Series:E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Diseases in motion pictures.
Science fiction films > History and criticism.
Health attitudes.
Epidemics > Prevention.
Health promotion.
Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control
Health Promotion
Attitude to Health
Health Promotion > methods
Internationality
Medicine in the Arts
Motion Pictures as Topic
Maladies au cinéma.
Films de science-fiction > Histoire et critique.
Épidémies > Prévention.
Promotion de la santé.
Attitudes à l'égard de la santé.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Health promotion
Health attitudes
Epidemics > Prevention
Diseases in motion pictures
Science fiction films
Gesundheit > Motiv
Science-Fiction-Film
Krankheit > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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