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Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema

Precarious Identities

Heike Klippel editor Bettina Wahrig editor Anke Zechner editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:27th Nov '17

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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.

 

ISBN: 9783319649085

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 4552g

254 pages

1st ed. 2017