Film and Discussion Group: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
GTC Medical Anthropology Film & Discussion Group
Tuesday 7 May 2019 15:30 to 17:00Location: |
Barclay Room, Green Templeton College |
Everyone is welcome to attend this session which will examine the film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), directed by Julian Schnabel.
This poignant drama is based on a real-life story. Once an editor of a well-known magazine in France, a man was struck down in his 40s by a stroke that left him unable to move a muscle, yet did not affect his mental reflexes. He went on to write his autobiography just by blinking patterns, the only physical activity he could still perform, which followed an alphabetical code.
The Green Templeton College Medical Anthropology Film and Discussion Group explores the extent to which film can complement, enrich and further the study of medical anthropology themes, topics and methods. We discuss a film’s content and approach, and interrogate its capacity to support the analysis of issues relating to illness, crisis, health and wellbeing.
This term we ‘cross boundaries’ with medical humanities. We discuss clips from feature films on different kinds of ‘boundaries’: body-mind; body-environment and human-animal being.
Location:Β
Barclay Room
Green Templeton College
43 Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6HG
