Poison and poisoning in science, fiction and cinema : precarious identities /: precarious identities. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Heike Klippel, Bettina Wahrig, Anke Zechner.
• Editors: Klippel, Heike, 1960-; Wahrig, Bettina; Zechner, Anke
• Contents: 1.Introduction - Heike Klippel, Bettina Wahrig, Anke Zechner.- 2. Cases and Environments: Female Poisoners in Eighteenth-Century Germany - Julia Saatz.- 3. The Truth About the Lafarge Affair: Controversies and Poisons in Salons and Academies - José Bertomeu Sanchez.- 4. 'Nature is Lopsided': Muscarine as Scientific and Literary Fascinosum - Bettina Wahrig.- 5. 'Everything stays down where it's wounded': Precarious Ontologies and Ecologies of Poison - Stephan Trinkaus.- 6. Metamorphoses: 'Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds': Investigations into Life, Death, Resuscitation and 'Vegetable Poisons' in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain - Silvia Micheletti.- 7. 'These Pale Alchemies': Lucretia Borgia in Nineteenth-Century Literature - Martina Mittag.- 8. Magic Matters: On Sexed Bodies and Early Film - Kathrin Peters.- 9. Fun and Games: The Joy of Poisoning in Children's Literature - Sylvia A. Pamboukian.- 10. Nuclear Power Subjects: Superheroes and Energetic Film - André Wendler.- 11. Visualizing the Invisible: From Substance to Phantasm. Poison Motifs in Narrative Cinema Heike Klippel.- 12. Cinema and the Motif of Poison as Intermingling - Anke Zechner.- 13. Serial Poisoning: Actualizations of the 'Yellow Peril' in 1960s Fu Manchu Films - Maja Figge.- 14. Poison Ivy, Lux Interior, Cramps: Cinema as Ontoxicological 'Mit-Gift' (Being-With Not as a Given) - Drehli Robnik.- 15. Queering Autoimmunity with Sexual Difference: On Todd Haynes' Poison (1991) and Safe (1997) - Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky.- 16. Conclusion: Identity, Precariousness, and Poison: A Brief and Political Outlook - Heiko Stoff. .
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 791.4366; Poisons in motion pictures; Poisoning in motion pictures; Poisons in literature; Poisoning in literature; Poisons; Poisoning
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319649092
• Related ISBNs: 9783319649085
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