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Screening The Body - Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture (Paperback, New)
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Screening The Body - Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture (Paperback, New)
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Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices
every day in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when
did such issues come to be established and accepted sources of
knowledge about the body in medical culture? How are the
specialized techniques and codes of these imaging techniques
determined, and whose bodies are studied, diagnosed and treated
with the help of optical recording devices? "Screening the Body"
traces the unusual history of scientific film during the late 19th
and early 20th centuries, presenting material that is at once
disturbing and engrossing. Lisa Cartwright looks at films like "The
Elephant Electrocution". She brings to light eccentric figures in
the history of the science film such as William P. Spratling who
used Biograph equipment and crews to film epileptic seizures, and
Thomas Edison's lab assistants who performed x-ray experiments on
their own bodies. Drawing on feminist film theory, cultural
studies, the history of film, and the writings of Foucault, Lisa
Cartwright illustrates how this scientific cinema was a part of a
broader tendency in society toward the technological surveillance,
management, and physical transformation of the individual body and
the social body. She frequently points out the similarities of
scientific film to works of avant-garde cinema, revealing
historical ties among the science film, popular media culture and
elite modernist art and film practices. Ultimately, Cartwright
unveils an area of film culture that has rarely been discussed, but
which will leave readers scouring video libraries in search of the
films she describes.
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