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Cinematic prophylaxis : globalization and contagion in the discourse of world health
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- Creator
- Kirsten Ostherr
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2005
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- xii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822336488, 9780822387381, 0822387387, 0822336359, 0822336480, 9780822336358
- OCLC
- on1055304308, ocm60311924
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-248), filmography (pages 249-258), and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Diseases in motion pictures.
- Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
- Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control.
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- Attitude to Health.
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- Health Promotion -- methods.
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- Internationality.
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- Medicine in the Arts.
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- Motion Pictures.
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