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Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture)

Elizabeth Klaver

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Description:Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Klaver considers how autopsies are performed in a variety of contexts, from the “real” thing in hospitals and county morgues to various depictions in paintings, novels, plays, films, and television shows. Autopsies can serve a variety of pedagogical, legal, scientific, and social functions, and the autopsied cadaver, Klaver shows, has lately become one of the most spectacular bodies offered up to the public on film, television, and the Internet. Setting her discussion within the history of the modern autopsy, and including the narrative of her own attendance at a medical autopsy, Klaver makes the autopsy readable in a number of diverse venues, from Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson and Vesalius’s Fabrica to The Silence of the Lambs, The X-Files, and CSI. Moving from the actual autopsy itself to its broader symbolic ramifications, Klaver addresses questions as disparate as the social constructedness of the body, the perception and treatment of death under late capitalism, and the ubiquity of paranoia in contemporary culture.Elizabeth Klaver is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University. She is the editor of Images of the From the Renaissance to Cyberspace and the author of Performing Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture). To get started finding Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 192

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: SUNY Press

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0791483428

Description: Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Klaver considers how autopsies are performed in a variety of contexts, from the “real” thing in hospitals and county morgues to various depictions in paintings, novels, plays, films, and television shows. Autopsies can serve a variety of pedagogical, legal, scientific, and social functions, and the autopsied cadaver, Klaver shows, has lately become one of the most spectacular bodies offered up to the public on film, television, and the Internet. Setting her discussion within the history of the modern autopsy, and including the narrative of her own attendance at a medical autopsy, Klaver makes the autopsy readable in a number of diverse venues, from Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson and Vesalius’s Fabrica to The Silence of the Lambs, The X-Files, and CSI. Moving from the actual autopsy itself to its broader symbolic ramifications, Klaver addresses questions as disparate as the social constructedness of the body, the perception and treatment of death under late capitalism, and the ubiquity of paranoia in contemporary culture.Elizabeth Klaver is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University. She is the editor of Images of the From the Renaissance to Cyberspace and the author of Performing Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture). To get started finding Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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