Signs of life
Subtitle: cinema and medicine
By: edited by Graeme Harper and Andrew Moor.
Contributors: Harper, Graeme.; Moor, Andrew.
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Physicians in motion pictures.; Medical personnel in motion pictures.; Motion pictures and medicine.
Other titles: Signs of life :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Magic bullets, dark victories and cold comforts: some preliminary observations about stories of sickness in the cinema / Brian Glasser; title: Birth traumas: medicine, parturition and horror in Rosemary's Baby / Lucy Fischer; title: The mainstream AIDS movie prior to the 1990s / Kenneth MacKinnon; title: Health education films in Britain, 1919-39: production, genres and audiences / Timothy M. Boon; title: Sex, death and stereotypes: disability in Sick and Crash / Tom Shakespeare; title: Past imperfect, future tense: the health services in British cinema of the mid-century / Andrew Moor; title: Just a story or a 'just story'? Ethical issues in a film with a medical theme / M. Roy Jobson & Donna Knapp van Bogaert; title: 'Either he's dead or my watch has stopped': medical notes in 1930s film comedy / Graeme Harper; title: Angels, battleaxes and good-time girls: cinema's images of nurses / Julia Hallam; title: 'To catch a star on your fingertips': diagnosing the medical biopic from The Story of Louis Pasteur to Freud / Bruce Babington; title: From Let There Be Light to Shades of Grey: the construction of authoritative knowledge about combat fatigue (1945-48) / C. A. Morgan III; title: Imitation of life: the politics of the new genetics in cinema / Jackie Stacey.