Poison And Poisoning In Science, Fiction And Cinema: Precarious Identities (palgrave Studies In Science And Popular Culture)
by Heike Klippel /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.