Deathwatch : American film, technology, and the end of life /

While cinema is a medium with a unique ability to 'watch life' and 'write movement, ' it is equally singular in its portrayal of death. This book considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera and connects...

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Autor principal: Combs, C. Scott (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New York : Columbia University Press [2014]
Col·lecció:Film and culture.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/comb16346
Taula de continguts:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: An Elusive Passage
  • 1. Mortal Recoil: Early American Execution Scenes and the Electric Chair
  • 2. Posthumous Motion: The Deathwork of Narrative Editing
  • 3. Echo and Hum: Death's Acoustic Space in the Early Sound Film
  • 4. Seconds: The Flashback Loop and the Posthumous Voice
  • 5. Terminal Screens: Cinematography and Electric Death
  • Coda: End(Ings)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.