Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema: Precarious IdentitiesHeike Klippel, Bettina Wahrig, Anke Zechner Springer, 14 lis 2017 - 254 This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of representation. How do science studies, literature, and especially film—the medium of the visible—explain and show what is hidden? How can we deal with uncertainties emerging from the ambivalence of dangerous substances? These considerations lead the editors of this volume to the notion of “precarious identities” as a key discursive marker of poisons and related substances. This book is unique in facilitating a multi-faceted conversation between disciplines. It draws on examples from historical cases of poisoning; figurations of uncertainty and blurred boundaries in literature; and cinematic examples, from early cinema and arthouse to documentary and blockbuster. The contributions work with concepts from gender studies, new materialism, post-colonialism, deconstructivism, motif studies, and discourse analysis.
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Poisons in Salons Academies and Courtrooms During the Nineteenth Century | 37 |
Muscarine as Scientific and Literary Fascinosum in Dorothy L Sayers The Documents in the Case | 57 |
Precarious Ontologies and Ecologies of Poison | 75 |
Part II Metamorphoses | 87 |
Investigations into Life Death Resuscitation and Vegetable Poisons in Early NineteenthCentury Britain | 88 |
Superheroes and Energetic Film | 147 |
Part III Visualizing the Invisible | 157 |
Poison Motifs in Narrative Cinema | 158 |
Cinema and the Motif of Poison as Intermingling | 177 |
Actualizations of the Yellow Peril in 1960s Fu Manchu Films | 190 |
Cinema as Ontoxicological MitGift and BeingWith as a Given in Societies of Enforced Precarity | 211 |
The Karen Carpenter Story Poison and Safe | 223 |
Part IV Conclusion | 237 |
Lucretia Borgia in NineteenthCentury Literature | 103 |
On Sexed Bodies and Early Film | 119 |
The Joy of Poisoning in Childrens Literature | 135 |
A Brief and Political Outlook | 238 |
Index | 251 |