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Body Trauma TV: The New Hospital Dramas (Hardcover, 2003 Ed.)
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Body Trauma TV: The New Hospital Dramas (Hardcover, 2003 Ed.)
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Hospital dramas like "ER, Casualty, Chicago Hope, "and "Gideon's
Crossing "became extremely popular over the past decade. This book
explores the stylistic, aesthetic, and thematic impact of this
successful genre. It argues that new medical dramas offer a very
different visual and affective landscape from their predecessors,
often seeking to disturb rather than reassure their audiences. Such
dramas are visually mobile, speedy, and explicit in their depiction
of body trauma: injury and illness are showcased as part of the
televisual style. The medical professional is now frequently
depicted as a modern day existentialist, forced to confront insipid
new management cultures, ethical labyrinths, and noxious patients
that invade the white purity of the medical ward and emergency
room. The book traces the historical development of new medical
drama and explores the implications of, and anxieties within, their
depiction of modern healthcare. Finally, the book argues that there
are parallels between the cultural fascination with the body as
either sick or perfected and the attractions of a genre that seems
to revel in the juxtaposition of morbidity and glamor.
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