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Cinematic prophylaxis : globalization and contagion in the discourse of world health / Kirsten Ostherr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostherr, Kirsten, 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases in motion pictures.
- Science fiction films--History and criticism.
- Science fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A history and theorization of the representation of public health concerns in commercial cinema and educational film.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-248), filmography (p. 249-258), and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822387381
- 0822387387
- OCLC:
- 300981100
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