Medicinema: Doctors in Films

ISBN-13: 9781846191572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 156 str.

Brian Glasser

Opis

Cinema and medicine have been inextricably linked since the earliest days of film, with doctors appearing in fictional films before criminals, the clergy or even cowboys. But why have healthcare professionals - often played by major stars - featured so prominently in film history, and what does this have to tell us now? Responding to Alexander, Lenahan and Pavlov's Cinemeducation (Radcliffe, 2005) which focused on the uses of cinema in medical teaching, this book instead examines what film has to say about medicine, its practitioners, and their cultural meaning. Drawing on a miscellany of films from the dawn of cinema to the 2000s, from horror and westerns to war films and art cinema, and informed by a film and cultural studies-based approach, this will be a valuable text for students of medical or film history, researchers in the medical humanities, and medical practitioners with an interest in the portrayal and cultural representation of their profession.

Spis treści

Introduction. Beware Greeks bearing gifts — especially one called Hippocrates. Great directors (1): John Ford (1895-1973). Destination: out? Visuality: mapping the overlap. Deep and meaningful: ‘Le corbeau’. Wars of the world. Wild Strawberries [by John Salinsky]. Real lives (Part I): a series of awakenings. Real lives (Part II): biopics. Great directors (2): Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998). Doctors, in practice. Bigger than life? Medical melodrama. Mirror, mirror, on the screen. In closing.

O autorze

Brian Glasser, Sally Irvine