Death and the moving image : ideology, iconography and I / Michele Aaron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aaron, Michele, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Death & the Moving Image

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Death and the Moving Image provides the first in-depth study of the representation of death and dying in mainstream Western cinema from its earliest to its latest renditions. It explores the impact of gender, race, nation and narration upon death's dramatics on-screen and isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain lives, and specific socio-cultural identities, in a hierarchical and partisan way. Dedicated to the popular, to the political and ethical implications of mass culture's themes and imperatives, this book takes mainstream cinema to task for its mortal economies: for its adoration and absolution of some characters and expendability of others. It also ultimately disinters the capacity for film, and film criticism, to engage with life and vulnerability differently. Aimed at the burgeoning field of death studies and explosion of interest in trauma and ethics within film studies, this book charts important new territory for the discipline whilst arguing for the centrality of this subject to the socio-political significance of cinema.

Contents:

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7486-9701-2

0-7486-3047-3

OCLC:

872628129