SIGNS OF LIFE

Signs of Life: Medicine and Cinema is the first single volume to consider the cinematic representation of medicine, medical science and the medical profession, and explores the political implications of the representations of doctors, nurses, patients, diseases and disabilities. The essays in this collection, from a wide range of film scholars and medical practitioners, also consider how formal qualities of cinema such as empirical observation, mise-en-scène, propaganda and education, melodrama, documentary and narrative construction impact on our understanding of medical procedures and the public image of medicine.

January 2005
192 pages

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Graeme Harper is Director of Research at the College of Arts and Humanities at Bangor University. He is the author of The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film(2007) is co-editor of Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and its Critics (2000).

Andrew Moor is Lecturer in Film Studies at Bangor University and the author of Magic Spaces: The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger (2005).

'Signs of Life is a useful introduction to the study of medical cinema. The politics of public health, genetic engineering and the medical profession come in for close attention in almost every essay here, and that is surely the highlight of an engaging volume.'
– Pramod K. Nayar, Scope