Signs of Life Medicine and Cinema - Cinema and Medicine

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Graeme Harper and Andrew Moor. Foreword by Sir Kenneth Calman Klappentext Signs of Life explores the representation of doctors! nurses! patients! diseases and disabilities and their political implications. By considering how formal qualities of cinema - empirical observation! mise-en-scène! propaganda and education! melodrama! documentary! narrative construction - impact our understanding of medical procedures and the public image of medicine. Films discussed include Apocalypse Now! M.A.S.H.! Schindler's List! The Fly! Philadelphia! Face/Off! The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Thelma and Louise and The Tin Drum.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Graeme Harper, Graeme Moor Harper
• Mitarbeit: Graeme Harper (Herausgeber), Andrew Moor (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Wallflower Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.01.2005
• EAN: 9781904764175
• ISBN: 978-1-904764-17-5
• Seiten: 224
• Serie: Film and Media Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Fotografie, Film, Video, TV; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin