Cinematic prophylaxis : globalization and contagion in the discourse of world health / Kirsten Ostherr.

  • Ostherr, Kirsten, 1970-
Date:
2005
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Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Physical description

xii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-248), filmography (p. 249-258), and index.

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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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 0822336359
  • 9780822336358
  • 0822336480
  • 9780822336488