Body, Capital and Screens Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century

Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century brings together new research from leading scholars from Europe and North America working at the intersection of film and media studies and social and cultural history of the body. The volume focuses on visual media in the twentieth century in Eur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bonah, Christian, editor (editor), Laukötter, Anja, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2020]
Colección:De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century: An Introduction
  • 1. Playing the Doctor, Playing the Patient : The Performance of Health Identities in Live Medical Television, 1958
  • 2. The BBC's Children in Need Telethon : The Currencies of Compassion
  • 3. Let's Talk about S... : The Influence of Cinéma Vérité on Sex Education in French National Television around 1968
  • 4. Measuring Subjectification : The Reception of Health Education Campaigns and the Evaluation Conundrum
  • 5. Swimming the Crawl to Educate the Modern Body : Visual Material and the Expanding Market for Participatory Sports in the USA, 1890s-1930s
  • 6. Inside Magoo (1960) : Comedic Commentary on 1950s America and Cancer
  • 7. 'One Feels so Much in These Times!' Emotional Education and the Construction of New Subjectivities: Sex Education Films in Early 1960s GDR
  • 8. Revealing Norms and Sowing Confusion: VALIE EXPORT's Body
  • 9. 'Before Education, Good Food, and Health' : World Citizenship and Biopolitics in UNESCO's Post-War Literacy Films
  • 10. From Colonial to Global : Visuals and the Historiography of Body Government beyond Europe
  • 11. Zika Virus, Global Health Communication, and Dataveillance
  • Index.