Death in documentaries : the Memento Mori experience /

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Memento mori is a broad and understudied cultural phenomenon and experience. The term "memento mori" is a Latin injunction that means "remember mortality," or more directly, "remember that you must die." In art and cultural history, memento mori appears widely, especial...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bennett-Carpenter, Benjamin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Colección:Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of film.
Temas:
Death.
Documentary films.
Death in motion pictures.
Mortality in art.
Mortality in literature.
Death
Mort.
Mort au cinéma.
Mortalité dans la littérature.
Documentaires.
deaths.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Death in motion pictures
Documentary films
Mortality in art
Mortality in literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Basics of Memento Mori
  • From Art and Cultural History to Contemporary Documentary
  • Features of Memento Mori and How Memento Mori Functions
  • Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Documentaries
  • Rhetorically-Oriented Phenomenology Applied to Documentaries
  • Composed Transformative Experience: Introducing Documentaries as Memento Mori
  • Program Ahead
  • 1. Memento Mori in Art and Literature
  • 1.1. Memento Mori in Art: As Symbol and as Picture
  • 1.1.1. Memento Mori as Religious Image
  • 1.1.2. Memento Mori as Still Life and as Portraiture
  • 1.1.3. Memento Mori as Visual Quotation in Art, Including Photography
  • 1.2. Memento Mori in Literature: As Verbal, Literary, and Ideational
  • 1.2.1. Memento Mori as Picture Nomenclature and Verbal Instruction
  • 1.2.2. Memento Mori as Reference in Literature: Verbatim and Ideational
  • 1.3. Memento Mori in Film and Television
  • 2. Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten as Memento Mori
  • 2.1. Eameses as Designers of Experiences that Communicate Ideas
  • 2.2. Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Powers
  • 2.2.1. Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational Memento Mori in Powers
  • 2.2.2. Memento Mori as Mortality-Index in Powers
  • 2.2.3. Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Powers
  • 2.3. Intellectually Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Powers
  • 3. Memento Mori as "Consciousness of Mortality" and as a Cultural Phenomenon
  • 3.1. Memento Mori is an Index of Death
  • 3.1.1. Memento Mori (in Any Form) Refers to Death
  • 3.1.2. Memento Mori Relies upon Consciousness, Memory in Particular
  • 3.2. Memento Mori is Also an Artificial Convention
  • 3.2.1. Memento Mori is an Artifice with a History or Cultural Genealogy that Relies upon Particular Social Reception
  • 3.2.2. Memento Mori Relates to Various and Specific Genres, Media, and Materials
  • 3.3. Memento Mori as Composed Transformative Experience
  • 3.3.1. General Aspects of Memento Mori Experience
  • 3.3.2. Intellectually, Ethically, and Affectively Transformative Elements of Memento Mori Experience
  • 3.4. Contemporary Form of Memento Mori: Documentaries
  • 4. Ethical Memento Mori: Wim Wenders's Notebook on Cities and Clothes
  • 4.1. Wenders as Contemplative Documentarian of Mortals
  • 4.2. Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Notebook
  • 4.2.1. Memento Mori as Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational in Notebook
  • 4.2.2. Memento Mori as Mortality-index in Notebook
  • 4.2.3. Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Notebook
  • 4.3. Ethically Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Notebook
  • 5. Documentaries as Contemporary Memento Mori
  • 5.1. Documentaries Index Death
  • 5.2. Documentaries Also Rely on Convention with a Particular History and Function
  • 5.3. Documentaries as Composed Transformative Experience
  • 5.3.1. Documentaries as Intellectually Transformative: Determining and Distinguishing the Real from Irreal
  • 5.3.2. Documentaries as Ethically Transformative: Contemplating Appropriate Responses to the Mortal Condition
  • 5.3.3. Documentaries as Affectively Transformative: Moving Individuals into Distinctive Human Experience
  • 5.4. Levels of Analysis by Which Memento Mori is Identified in Specific Documentaries
  • 6. Quintessential Memento Mori Experience: Derek Jarman's Blue
  • 6.1. Word on Jarman as Ecstatic Seer
  • 6.2. Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Blue
  • 6.2.1. Memento Mori as Verbal, Literary, and Ideational in Blue
  • 6.2.2. Memento Mori as Mortality-index and Convention in or Related to Blue
  • 6.3. Affectively Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Blue
  • 7. Personal Memento Mori: The Iconic 9/11 Footage and the Threat of Death
  • 7.1. Viewer as Contemplative Seer of the Threat of Death
  • 7.1.1. 12th of September, 2001, Comet Burger Diner, USA
  • 7.1.2. When Memento Mori Strikes Close
  • 7.2. Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by the 9/11 Footage
  • 7.2.1. Memento Mori as Symbolic, Ideational, and Composed in the 9/11 Footage
  • 7.2.2. Memento Mori as Mediated Mortality-index, Indicated by the 9/11 Footage
  • 7.3. Personally Transformative Points of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by the 9/11 Footage
  • 7.3.1. Realizing One's Place as a Mortal in a Vast Cosmos
  • 7.3.2. "Making one's life" as a Mortal in 21st Century "glocal" Society
  • 7.3.3. Moving One's Self into Distinctive Human Experience
  • 7.4. Counterpoint: Memento Mori as Death Threat in Extremist YouTube Videos
  • 8. Conclusion and Future Prospects
  • 8.1. After Death in Documentaries
  • 8.2. From Memento Mori to Memento Vivere?
  • 8.3. Memento Mori in New Media Environments.

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