TY  - GEN
T1  - Death and the moving image : ideology, iconography and I
A1  - Aaron, Michele
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn871642342
AB  - Winner of the 2015 Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image Book Award. Examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving Image reveals the ambivalent place of death in twentieth and twenty-first century culture: the ongoing split between its over- and under-statement, between its cold, bodily, realities and its fantastical, transcendental and, most importantly, strategic depictions. Our screens are steeped in death's dramatics: in spectacles of glorious sacrifice or bloody retribution, in the ecstasy of agony, but always in the promise of redemption. This book is about the staging of these dramatics in mainstream Western film and the discrepancies that fuel them and are, by return, fuelled by them. Exploring the impact of gender, race, nation or narration upon them, this groundbreaking study isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain lives, and specific socio-cultural identities, in a hierarchical and partisan way. Key Features. Examines the formal, psychological and political exchange between cinema and death Accessible 'before, during, after' structure: of death's presence as narrative promise, physical event and spectatorial reaction. Considers how filmmaking practice or visual medium affect the representation of death and its cultural significance
OP  - 256
CN  - PN1995.9.D37 A27 2014eb
SN  - 1306465303
SN  - 9781306465304
SN  - 9780748630479
SN  - 0748630473
SN  - 9780748677764
SN  - 0748677763
SN  - 9780748697014
SN  - 0748697012
SN  - 9780748624430
SN  - 0748624430
SN  - 9781474402750
KW  - Death in motion pictures.
KW  - Motion pictures : History : 20th century.
KW  - Motion pictures : History : 21st century.
KW  - Mort au cinéma.
KW  - Cinéma : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Cinéma : Histoire : 21e siècle.
KW  - Films, cinema.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Reference.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - Death in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - 1900-2099
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -