Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine

by Graeme Harper (Editor), Andrew Moor (Editor), Sir Kenneth Calman (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904764175
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/11/2005
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Graeme Harper is co—editor of Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and its Critics. Andrew Moor is lecturer in film studies at Bangor University and the author of Magic Spaces: The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger.

Editorial Reviews

A welcome addition to the growing body of literature in this intriguing field.

Cineaste - Michael Richardson

Signs of Life is a useful introduction to the study of medical cinema...The politics of public health, genetic engineering and the medical profession come in for close attention in almost every essay here, and that is surely the highlight of an engaging volume.

Scope - Parmod K. Nayar

A welcome addition to the growing body of literature in this intriguing field.

— Michael Richardson

Cineaste

Signs of Life is a useful introduction to the study of medical cinema...The politics of public health, genetic engineering and the medical profession come in for close attention in almost every essay here, and that is surely the highlight of an engaging volume.

— Parmod K. Nayar

Scope