Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments-the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter-interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured. The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors-a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a literary work that emerges from one of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply affecting first book has been described by one early reader as "the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories."

Emergency medicine --- Hospitals --- Emergency services --- accidents. --- anthology. --- blood. --- career. --- collection of stories. --- disease. --- emergency medicine. --- emergency rooms. --- emotional. --- er physicians. --- fast paced. --- firsthand accounts. --- healthcare. --- human struggles. --- illness. --- injury. --- life and death. --- literary nonfiction. --- lyrical essays. --- medical professionals. --- medical world. --- memoirs. --- modern medicine. --- neurosurgeons. --- new mexico. --- nonfiction stories. --- patients and doctors. --- retrospective. --- trauma surgeons. --- vignettes. --- visceral.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The first international anthology to explore the historical significance of amateur film, Mining the Home Movie makes visible, through image and analysis, the hidden yet ubiquitous world of home moviemaking. These essays boldly combine primary research, archival collections, critical analyses, filmmakers' own stories, and new theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. Editors Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann have fashioned a groundbreaking volume that identifies home movies as vital methods of visually preserving history. The essays cover an enormous range of subject matter, defining an important genre of film studies and establishing the home movie as an invaluable tool for extracting historical and social insights.

Film archives. --- Amateur films --- Archives, Motion picture --- Motion picture archives --- Archives --- Motion picture film collections --- Amateur moving-pictures --- Home movies --- Personal films --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Cinéma d'amateurs --- Archives cinématographiques --- Histoire et critique --- Film --- film --- homemovie --- amateur film. --- anthology. --- archival films. --- archives. --- critical analysis. --- essay collection. --- family memories. --- film analysis. --- film scholars. --- film students. --- film studies. --- film theory. --- filmmakers. --- firsthand accounts. --- historical significance. --- home movies. --- international perspective. --- moviemaking. --- nonfiction essays. --- personal documentaries. --- personal histories. --- personal memories. --- social insights. --- theoretical approach. --- visual essays. --- visual history.