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1 online resource (156 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Chapter 1. Introduction: Medicine Through a Lens; References; Chapter 2. Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts, Especially One Called Hippocrates; Horror Film History; Sources and Successors; Further Reading; Filmography; Chapter 3. Great Directors. I: John Ford(1895-1973); Filmography; Chapter 4. Destination: Out?; Crisis (Brooks, 1950); Windom's Way (Neame, 1958); City of Joy (Joffé, 1992); The Last King of Scotland (Macdonald, 2006); Dirty Pretty Things (Frears, 2002); Filmography |
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Chapter 5. Visuality: Mapping the OverlapReferences; Filmography; Chapter 6. Deep and Meaningful: Le Corbeau; Acknowledgement; Further Reading; Filmography; Chapter 7. Wars of the World; A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946); Dive Bomber (Curtiz, 1941); Regeneration (Mackinnon, 1997); MASH (Altman, 1970); Further Reading; Filmography; Chapter 8. Wild Strawberries John Salinsky; On a Personal Note; About the Director; Unspooling the Story; Victor Sjöström: a Grand Old Man; That Car; Why is the film called Wild Strawberries?; Style of Filming; Now About those Women .. |
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Problems and DifficultiesFavourite Scenes; Inner Meanings?; Is there a Message for Doctors?; References; Filmography; Chapter 9. Real Lives. I: A Series of Awakenings; The Book; The TV Documentary; The Play; The Film; Closing Thoughts; References; Filmography; Chapter 10. Real Lives. II: Biopics; References; Filmography; Chapter 11. Great Directors. II: Akirakurosawa (1910-1998); Drunken Angel (1948); The Quiet Duel (1949); Red Beard (1965); References; Filmography; Chapter 12. Doctors, in Practice; Meet the Fakers; A Litany of Ills, and Some Remedies; References; Filmography |
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Chapter 13. Bigger than Life? Medical MelodramaMagnificent Obsession (Sirk, 1954); Magnificent Obsession (Stahl, 1935); Considerations; References; Further Reading; Filmography; Chapter 14. Mirror, Mirror, on the Screen; The Hospital (Hiller, 1971); Britannia Hospital (Anderson, 1982); Syndromes and a Century (2006, Weerasethakul); Further Reading; Filmography; Chapter 15. In Closing; General Bibliography; Index |
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Physicians in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures.
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Motion Pictures
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Physicians in motion pictures
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315347172 |
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1315347172 |
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