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2005

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Ostherr Kirsten Ostherr

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16 novembre 2005

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9780822387381

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A timely contribution to the fields of film history, visual cultures, and globalization studies, Cinematic Prophylaxis provides essential historical information about how the representation of biological contagion has affected understandings of the origins and vectors of disease. Kirsten Ostherr tracks visual representations of the contamination of bodies across a range of media, including 1940s public health films; entertainment films such as 1950s alien invasion movies and the 1995 blockbuster Outbreak; television programs in the 1980s, during the early years of the aids epidemic; and the cyber-virus plagued Internet. In so doing, she charts the changes-and the alarming continuities-in popular understandings of the connection between pathologized bodies and the global spread of disease.Ostherr presents the first in-depth analysis of the public health films produced between World War II and the 1960s that popularized the ideals of world health and taught viewers to imagine the presence of invisible contaminants all around them. She considers not only the content of specific films but also their techniques for making invisible contaminants visible. By identifying the central aesthetic strategies in films produced by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and other institutions, she reveals how ideas about racial impurity and sexual degeneracy underlay messages ostensibly about world health. Situating these films in relation to those that preceded and followed them, Ostherr shows how, during the postwar era, ideas about contagion were explicitly connected to the global circulation of bodies. While postwar public health films embraced the ideals of world health, they invoked a distinct and deeply anxious mode of representing the spread of disease across national borders.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

16 novembre 2005

EAN13

9780822387381

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

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The case, to the writer, therefore, appears something like this: As a nation we believe in high standards of living. We believe in sanitation, in pure food, in pure milk, in the best obtainable hygiene, instruction, and education for our children. Is it possible that the color and content of their minds is a matter of indiﬀerence to us? We pay for our school system. We pay for our water supply. We also pay for the motion pictures. What would we say if any questionable character were to be allowed to come in suddenly and take charge of our children’s schooling? Or, if suspected water were even occasionally turned into our mains? What an outcry goes up if a milk supply in a town is suddenly discovered to be in the least degree tainted! The vast haphazard, promiscuous, so frequently ill-chosen, output of pic-tures to which we expose our children’s minds for inﬂuence and imprint, is not this at least of equal importance? For, as we cannot but conclude, if unwatched, it is extremely likely to create a haphazard, promiscuous and undesirable national consciousness.

  ,Our Movie Made Children

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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

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From Inner to Outer Space: World Health and the Postwar Alien Invasion Film

Conspiracy and Cartography: Mapping Globalization through Epidemiology

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Indexical Digital: Representing Contagion in the Postphotographic Era

Conclusion

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–How Disease Is Spread()  How Disease Is Spread()  –Prevention of the Introduction of Diseases from Abroad()  –Panic in the Streets()  –Hemolytic Streptococcus Control() – –The Eternal Fight()  –The Eternal Fight()  –The Eternal Fight()  –The Eternal Fight()  –The Eternal Fight()  –The Eternal Fight()  –War of the Worlds()  –War of the Worlds()  –Invasion of the Body Snatchers()  –It Came from Outer Space()  –I Married a Monster from Outer Space()  –The Fight Against the Communicable Diseases()  –The Silent Invader()  –The Silent Invader()  –Hospital Sepsis()  Hospital Sepsis()  –Hospital Sepsis()  –Hospital Sepsis() 

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