Forwarding from the H-NET List for American Studies. Posted by Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine.
-----Original Message----- From: H-NET List for American Studies [mailto:h-ams...@h-net.msu.edu] On Behalf Of Jake Mattox Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:03 PM To: h-ams...@h-net.msu.edu Subject: ANN: Medical Film Symposium, Philadelphia, January 20-23, 2010 From: Sappol, Michael (NIH/NLM) [E] [sapp...@mail.nlm.nih.gov] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:01 AM Subject: Medical Film Symposium The Medical Film Symposium will take place in Philadelphia, PA from January 20-23, 2010. Featuring four nights of screenings and one full day of presentations, the program will examine a wide range of medical images. By bringing together scholars, filmmakers, archivists and medical professionals, the symposium will engage disparate points of view on this rarely screened material. See Morbid Anatomy blog http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2010/01/medical-film-symposium-january -20-23.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ blogspot%2FlZix+%28Morbid+Anatomy%29& symposium website www.medicalfilmsymposium.com for details. Individual events will take place at film and medical venues around Philadelphia, including International House, Pennsylvania Hospital, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and Moore College of Art. Each night's screening will explore a different category of medical film - Hollywood, experimental, surgical and educational - and will demonstrate the wide variety of medical images. Throughout media history, the human body and medical experience have remained sources of inspiration and fascination. The screenings and presentations will complement each other and illuminate this rare material as well as the motives for production. The opening film, A MAN TO REMEMBER, depicts medical care during a public health crisis in 1930s small town America. The second night's screening, curated by experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, features short experimental films wrestling with the implications of disease and medical imaging technology. The third night's screening will be an expanded cinema event - including surgical films - at Pennsylvania Hospital's extant 19th century surgical amphitheater. The final night's screening is devoted to teaching and educational films and will occur in collaboration with Philadelphia's Secret Cinema. The symposium presentations will take place at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia on Saturday, January 23, from 9am to 5pm. The presentations will offer context for understanding the screenings; they will approach the material through different models and lenses. Presenters will investigate the historical, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of this unique material. The diverse roster of presenters includes historians, filmmakers, archivists, and medical professionals. For more information, email i...@medicalfilmsymposium.com. This program has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities' We the People initiative on American History. Michael Sappol National Library of Medicine sapp...@mail.nih.gov VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
