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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2014]
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| Serie: | Film and culture.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/comb16346 |
Sommario:
- 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.