Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine by Harper, Graeme

Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781904764168)

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Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine by Harper, Graeme

Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine

$24.00
Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine by Harper, Graeme

Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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"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-scA]ne, 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,"

Author: Graeme Harper
ISBN-10: 1904764169
ISBN-13: 9781904764168
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2005
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.34w x 0.51d
By Graeme Harper
By Graeme Harper
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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.

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