{"id":255429,"date":"2024-08-19T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/dis-ease-review-a-visually-rich-documentary-packs-a-punch-about-how-we-see-disease\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:05","slug":"dis-ease-review-a-visually-rich-documentary-packs-a-punch-about-how-we-see-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/dis-ease-review-a-visually-rich-documentary-packs-a-punch-about-how-we-see-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Dis-Ease review: A visually rich documentary packs a punch about how we see disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mosquitoes have become part of a double-edged \u201cwar on disease\u201d narrative<\/p>\n

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There aren\u2019t many laugh-out-loud moments in Mariam Ghani\u2019s documentary about our war on germs. But the sight of two British colonial hunters in former Ceylon bringing down a gigantic papier m\u00e2ch\u00e9 mosquito is a highlight.<\/p>\n

Ghani intercuts such public information films (a rich source of inadvertent comedy) with monster movies, documentaries, thrillers, newsreels and histology lab footage to tell the story of an abiding medical metaphor: the body as citadel, beset by germs.<\/p>\n

Dis-Ease<\/i>, which began life as an\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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