A history and theorization of the representation of public health concerns in commercial cinema and educational film.
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 sp…
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 disea…
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 disea…