Cinematic prophylaxis : globalization and contagion in the discourse of world health / Kirsten Ostherr.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

xii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Introduction: Cinema and hygiene -- Public sphere as Petri dish; or, "Special case studies of motion picture theaters which are known or suspected to be foci of moral infection" -- "Noninfected but infectible" : contagion and the boundaries of the visible -- From inner to outer space: world health and the postwar alien invasion film -- Conspiracy and cartography: mapping globalization through epidemiology -- Indexical digital : representing contagion in the postphotographic era.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-248), filmography (p. 249-258), and index.