Cinematic prophylaxis : globalization and contagion in the discourse of world health / Kirsten Ostherr.
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TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.Description: xii, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 0822336359 (alk. paper)
- 0822336480 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 791.436561 22 OST-C 2005 201350
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-248), filmography (p. 249-258), and index.
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 -- From inner to outer space: world health and the postwar alien invasion film -- Conspiracy and cartography: mapping globalization through epidemiology -- Indexical digital : representing contagion in the postphotographic era.