Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Christian Bonah ,  David Cantor (Author) ,  Anja Laukötter
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   University of Rochester Press
Volume:   v. 43
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781580469166

ISBN 10:   1580469167
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   01 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"Introduction Between Movies, Markets, and Medicine: The Eastern Film Corporation, Frank A. Tichenor, and Medical and Health Films in the 1920s In the Service of Industry and Human Health: The Bayer Corporation, Industrial Film, and Promotional Propaganda, 1934-42 Conversion Narratives, Health Films, and Hollywood Filmmakers of the 1930s and 1940s Prostitutes, Charity Girls, and The End of the Road: Hostile Worlds of Sex and Commerce in an Early Sexual Hygiene Film Film and Anti-alcohol Campaigns in the Soviet Union of the 1920s ""Where There's Life, There's Soap"": Municipal Public Health Films and Municipal Cinema in Britain between the Wars Cinema and Public Health Care in Early Postwar Germany, 1945-49 International Animation Aesthetics at the WHO: To Your Health (1956) and the Global Film Corpus Measuring Knowledge and Emotions: Audience Research in Educational Films at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Truffle Hunters and Parachutists: In Search of the Audience for British Health Education Films, 1919-45 List of Contributors Index"

Reviews

Its interdisciplinary focus will make it an interesting read for a wide range of scholars. BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

This wide-ranging collection convinces on the importance of the health education film as a medium that stretches beyond the specific confines of the films themselves. It should, therefore, be of value not only to historians of public health, but also those interested in the broader socio-political impact of film and other new media. SOCIAL HISTORY Its interdisciplinary focus will make it an interesting read for a wide range of scholars. BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Author Information

DAVID CANTOR, formerly a historian at the National Institutes of Health, is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) within the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions