156 Pages
by
CRC Press
156 Pages
by
CRC Press
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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)... Read more
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.
Biography
Brian Glasser, Sally Irvine
