Dying in Full Detail : Mortality and Digital Documentary /

In 'Dying in Full Detail' Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and distribution of death footage, digital media often fail to live u...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Malkowski, Jennifer, 1983- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Sterben
Dokumentarfilm
Documentary mass media.
Death in motion pictures.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
The arts.
Film, TV and radio.
Cinema numerique > Technique.
Mort au cinema.
Medias documentaires.
Documentaires > Production et realisation > Aspect moral.
Digital cinematography > Technique.
Documentary films > Production and direction > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:In 'Dying in Full Detail' Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and distribution of death footage, digital media often fail to live up to their promise to reveal the world in greater fidelity. Malkowski analyzes a wide range of death footage, from feature films about the terminally ill (Dying, Silverlake Life, Sick), to surreptitiously recorded suicides (The Bridge), to #BlackLivesMatter YouTube videos and their precursors. Contextualizing these recordings in the long history of attempts to capture the moment of death in American culture, Malkowski shows how digital media are unable to deliver death "in full detail," as its metaphysical truth remains beyond representation.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822373414
Accès:Open Access

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