Cinematic prophylaxis
Subtitle: globalization and contagion in the discourse of world health
By: Kirsten Ostherr.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Diseases in motion pictures; Science fiction films -- History and criticism; Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control; Health Promotion -- methods; Attitude to Health; Motion Pictures; Medicine in Art; Internationality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cinema and hygiene; title: Public sphere as Petri dish; or, "Special case studies of motion picture theaters which are known or suspected to be foci of moral infection"; title: "Noninfected but infectible" : contagion and the boundaries of the visible; title: From inner to outer space: world health and the postwar alien invasion film; title: Conspiracy and cartography: mapping globalization through epidemiology; title: Indexical digital : representing contagion in the postphotographic era.