Medicinema

Teaching Fellow, Medical Humanities, Primary Care & Population Health, University College London

• Introduction. Beware Greeks bearing gifts — especially one called Hippocrates. Great directors (1): John Ford (1895-1973). Destination: out? Visuality: mapping the overlap. Deep and meaningful: ‘Le corbeau’. Wars of the world. Wild Strawberries [by John Salinsky]. Real lives (Part I): a series of awakenings. Real lives (Part II): biopics. Great directors (2): Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998). Doctors, in practice. Bigger than life? Medical melodrama. Mirror, mirror, on the screen. In closing.

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