Medical Documentary: Conjoined Twins As A Mediated Spectacle  

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Dijck, Jos´e van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Media, Culture & Society vol. 24 no. 4 (Jul. 2002), page 537-556.
Topik: cinema history; cultural studies; media studies; medical film; science documentary; television and medicine.
Fulltext: 537MCS244.pdf (97.65KB)

Isi artikel

The freak show, the public showing of misfits or wonders of nature, as various people have claimed, disappeared in the 20th century due to a changing mentality and growing medicalization in western society. Based on Michel Foucault’s and Guy Debord’s theories, the argument of this article is that the freak show has never disappeared but has transformed into a medicalized-mediated spectacle. Medical documentaries featuring the surgical separation of Siamese twins constitute the diachronic focus of this essay. Ever since the invention of the movie camera, spectacular surgical interventions have been the subject of medical documentaries. Starting with the films of Doctor Doyen in early 20th century France and ending with recent American public broadcast documentaries, I will analyze the cinematic, spectatorial and contextual changes in the production of medical mediated spectacle.

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