Centre for the Humanities & Health, Film Studies Department, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, King's College, London, United Kingdom.
Nurs Outlook. 2012 Sep-Oct;60(5 Suppl):S27-35. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2012.06.019.
Melodrama is identified as one of the most prolific cinematic genres in terms of the representation of nurses. Its contribution to the overall media depiction of the professional category has therefore been significant. This paper explores melodramatic portrayals of nurses with a specific focus on cinema of the 1950s, the golden age of Western melodrama, and concentrates on two representative case studies: Anna (ITA, 1951), and The Nun's Story (USA, 1959). These films enable a fruitful comparison, sharing several narrative elements, featuring religious nurses as protagonists, and yet eventually conferring on the nursing vocation different values. Such similar nurses' images are examined through a multidisciplinary approach, spanning feminist film theory, gender and cultural studies, cultural history and the social history of nursing. Among the goals of this study is to consider whether different national origins--in these films, Italy and America--have also been influential in the depiction of the respective nurse-character.
情节剧被认为是在表现护士方面最丰富的电影类型之一。因此，它对整体媒体对专业类别的描绘做出了重大贡献。本文探讨了情节剧中对护士的刻画，特别关注 20 世纪 50 年代的西方情节剧黄金时代，并集中研究了两个有代表性的案例研究：《安娜》（意大利，1951 年）和《修女传》（美国，1959 年）。这些电影使我们能够进行富有成效的比较，它们共享了几个叙事元素，以宗教护士为主角，但最终赋予护理职业不同的价值观。通过跨学科的方法，对这些相似的护士形象进行了研究，包括女性主义电影理论、性别和文化研究、文化史和护理社会史。这项研究的目的之一是考虑不同的国家起源——在这些电影中，意大利和美国——是否也对各自的护士角色的描绘产生了影响。
