Death and the moving image : ideology, iconography and I /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2014]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt9qdrc4 |
Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Before
- Flirting with Death; 1 Self-endangerment and the Subject of Film; 2 Cinema and Suicide; 3 Sacrifice and Spectatorship in Context ; Part II During
- Depicting Death; 4 The Cinematic Language of Dying; 5 Grammar Lessons: Dying and Difference; 6 Watching Others Die: Spectatorship, Vulnerability and the Ethics of Being Moved; Part III After
- Responding to Death; 7 At Last: Towards a Cinema of No Return; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.