{"product_id":"body-capital-and-screens-visual-media-and-the-healthy-self-in-the-20th-century-9789462988293","title":"Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBody, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Europe and the U.S. that informed and educated people about life and health as well as practices improving them. Through a series of in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume investigate the relationships between film\/television, private and public actors of the health sector and economic developments. The book explores the performative and interactive power of these visual media on individual health understandings, perceptions and practices. \u003ci\u003eBody, Capital and Screens\u003c\/i\u003e aims to better understand how bodily health has evolved as a form of capital throughout the century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From the mid-twentieth century onwards, televisual media has actively shaped relations between human bodies, health practices and market forces. By paying close critical attention to the nuances of these connections, \u003ccite\u003eBody, Capital and Screens\u003c\/cite\u003e makes an important intervention in the field of European and global health history, and presents a convincing argument for the value of engaging with visual resources in historiographic research.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Fiona Johnstone, Durham University, \u003ccite\u003eEuropean Journal for the History of Medicine and Health\u003c\/cite\u003e (2021) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Die beiden Wissenschaftler_innen, die bereits zuvor in Co-Autorenschaft veröffentlichten, verbinden elf Beiträge, die auf der Mikroebene visuelle Kommunikationsformen analysieren. Dabei bearbeiten die Autor_innen dokumentarische Filme, Lehrfilme und Fernsehformate ebenso wie Amateurvideos. So passt sich das Buch perfekt in die Reihe „Media Matters“ der Amsterdam University Press ein, die den Fokus auf die Verflechtungen von Materialität und Performativität in alten und neuen Medien legt. [...] Den Herausgeber_innen gelingt es, strategische Gesundheitskommunikation und Medienwissenschaft zu vereinen. Diese interdisziplinäre Forschungsperspektive findet im deutschsprachigen Raum erst selten Anwendung.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Charmaine Voigt (Leipzig), \u003ccite\u003eMEDIENwissenschaft\u003c\/cite\u003e 03-04\/2021 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Der von Christian Bonah und Anja Laukötter herausgegebene Sammelband ist ein überaus gelungenes Beispiel für die Implementierung der Funktionsprinzipien des zeitgemäßen historisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Denkens in eine interdisziplinäre und international ausgerichtete Veröffentlichung. [...] Die immense Vielfalt an inhaltlichen Positionen und Ergebnissen, die vor diesem Hintergrund an konkreten thematischen Beispielen deutlich werden, macht den Sammelband in seiner Gänze zu einem höchst anregenden und lesenswerten Text.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Stefan Zahlmann, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien, \u003ccite\u003eH-Soz-Kult\u003c\/cite\u003e, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBody, Capital, and Screens: An Introduction \u003cbr\u003eChristian Bonah and Anja Laukötter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One \u003cbr\u003ePlaying the Doctor, Playing the Patient: The Performance of Health Identities in Live Medical Television, 1958 \u003cbr\u003eTimothy M. Boon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two \u003cbr\u003eThe BBC's Children in Need Telethon: The Currencies of Compassion \u003cbr\u003eKaren Lury \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three \u003cbr\u003eLet's Talk about S=: The Influence of Cinema Verité on Sex Education in French National Television around 1968 \u003cbr\u003eChristian Bonah \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four \u003cbr\u003eMeasuring Subjectification: The Reception of Health Education Campaigns and the Evaluation Conundrum \u003cbr\u003eLuc Berlivet \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five \u003cbr\u003eSwimming the Crawl to Educate the Modern Body-Visual Material and the Expanding Market for Participatory Sports in the USA, 1890s-1930s \u003cbr\u003eOlaf Stieglitz \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six \u003cbr\u003eInside Magoo (1960): Cancer and Comedic Commentary on 1950s America \u003cbr\u003eDavid Cantor \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven \u003cbr\u003e 'One Feels so Much in These Times!': Emotional Education and the Construction of New Subjectivities: Sex Education Films in Early 1960s GDR \u003cbr\u003eAnja Laukötter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight \u003cbr\u003eRevealing Norms and Sowing Confusion: VALIE EXPORT's Body \u003cbr\u003eSophie Delpeux \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine \u003cbr\u003e 'Before Education, Good Food, and Health': World Citizenship and Biopolitics in UNESCO's Post-war Literacy Films \u003cbr\u003eZoë Druick \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten \u003cbr\u003eFrom Colonial to Global: Visuals and the Historiography of Body Government beyond Europe \u003cbr\u003eJean-Paul Gaudillière \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven \u003cbr\u003eZika Virus, Global Health Communication, and Dataveillance \u003cbr\u003eKirsten Ostherr \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473236496727,"sku":"9789462988293","price":121.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789462988293.jpg?v=1744905812","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/body-capital-and-screens-visual-media-and-the-healthy-self-in-the-20th-century-9789462988293","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}