Posner, Miriam (Author)
Yale University
Musser, Charles
Warner, John Harley
Edition Details: Advisor: Musser, Charles; Warner, John Harley
Physical Details: 206 pp.
Language: English
Depth Perception examines the medical depiction of the human body on film during the first half of the twentieth century. It does this using three case studies: a series of films the Edison company made about tuberculosis, the work of the physician-filmmaker Jacob Sarnoff, and the photographs and films of the neurologist and psychiatrist Walter Freeman. These three case studies, which respectively deal with disease, anatomy, and mind, demonstrate that presenting the body on film is much more difficult than one might think. It requires a series of difficult choices about how to show interior processes and how to connect one part of the body to another. Moreover, filming the body activates anxiety about the relationship of the medical profession to showmanship (and, by extension, the marketplace). Depth Perception is a contribution to the visual scholarship of medicine as well as to the study of nontheatrical film.
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