Nurse in Popular Media

Critical Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the Edison phonographic recording of Florence Nightingale's voice in 1890. Since then, a parade of nurses, good, bad or otherwise, has appeared on both cinema and television screens. How do we interpret the many different types of nurses--real and fictional, lifelike and distorted, sexual and forbidding--who are so visible in the public consciousness? This book is a comprehensive collection of unique insights from scholars across the Western world. Essays explore a diversity of nursing types that traverse popular characterizations of nurses from various time periods. The shifting roles of nurses are explored across media, including picture postcards, film, television, journalism and the collection and preservation of uniforms and memorabilia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476684185

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Omvårdnad inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Marcus K. Harmes is a professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. He researches on British popular culture especially science fiction and horror. The late Barbara Harmes was an academic at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. Her research focused on English literature and higher education. Meredith A. Harmes teaches at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia and has a research background in political science and British political history.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsIntroductionBarbara Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes and Marcus K. HarmesSection One: Contested HeroinesFlorence on Film: Representations of Nightingale in Cinema and on TelevisionRichard Bates“Women bow”: The Shifting Power Dynamics Between Nurses and Doctors in TenkoMark AldridgeThe Death of Judy Hill: Arctic Nurses, Northern Bush Pilots and the Crash of ’72Travis HayA “Complex Personal Problem”: Reactions to Voluntary Sterilization in 1960s MediaCaitlin FendleyM*A*S*H*e*d and Harassed? Nurse Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan as Gendered Hate ObjectSusan HopkinsSection Two: Seeking the IdealCaps, Capes, Pins and Scrapbooks: Popular Nursing Objects of RemembranceJeannine UribePicture Perfect? Postcard Images of Nurses and Nursing, 1890–1920Julia HallamSeeking Standards: Nurses Real and Fictional and Their Professional Standards in British Popular CultureMarcus K. Harmes, Barbara Harmes and Meredith A. HarmesIn Search of Sympathy: Stereotypes and Stiff Upper Lips in Interwar NursingSarah ChaneyNostalgia for Spiritual Community Care: Midwifery as Religious Calling in Call the MidwifeMorag MartinMedia Representation of the Nursing Queen Archetype in Its Socio-Cultural ContextMerle Talvik, Taimi Tulva, Ülle Ernits and Kristi PuuseppSection Three: When Nurses Go WrongNot My Nurse: Pessimism in Representations of Nurses in 1970s CinemaVictoria N. MeyerLesbians, Nymphomaniacs, and Enema Specialists: Nurses, Horror, and AgencyMarcus K. Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes and Barbara HarmesScary Women: Nurses, Power Relations and Regimes of the VisualRonja Tripp-BodolaEroticizing the Nurse: (Bi/Homo)Sexuality and Monstrosity in Nurse 3DTatiana Prorokova-KonradAbout the ContributorsIndex