Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1580462340 ISBN 13 : 9781580462341

Editeur : University of Rochester Press, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseases have thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine's moving pictures continue to educate, entertain, and help us understand the body's journey through life. Perennially popular, health and medical media are also complex texts reflecting many interests and constituencies including, notably, the U.S. medical profession, which has often sought, if not always successfully, to influence content, circulation, and meaning. Medicine's Moving Pictures makes clear that health and medical media representations are "more than illustrations," shows their power to shape health perceptions, practices, and policies, and identifies their social, cultural, and historical contexts. Contributors: Lisa Cartwright, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Rachel Gans-Boriskin, Valerie Hartouni, Susan E. Lederer, John Parascandola, Martin S. Pernick, Leslie J. Reagan, Naomi Rogers, Nancy Tomes, Paula A. Treichler, Joseph Turow Leslie J. Reagan is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Nancy Tomes is a professor at Stony Brook University; Paula A. Treichler is a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Revue de presse :

(A) collection of engaging, original essays . . . (T)hey correct a common but misleading dismissal of medicine's cinematic and televisual depictions as frivolous and inconsequential in comparison with the serious and socially important practice of medicine. --American Historical Review (Kirsten Ostherr)

While these essays are focused as stand-alone pieces that individually make a significant contribution to our understanding of representational work in selected media forms, they also point to the need for a more comprehensive view of what still remains essentially uncharted territory in the available histories. --Technology and Culture (Julie K. Brown)

This collection will be indispensable to scholars. --Film & History, (Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Rochester Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1580462340
• ISBN 13: 9781580462341
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 353