Michele Aaron

Death and the Moving Image

Ideology, Iconography and I

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals the ambivalent place of death in 20th and 21st century culture: the ongoing split between its over- and under-statement, between its cold realities and its fantastical, transcendental and, most importantly, strategic depictions. This book examines the formal, psychological and political exchange between cinema and death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780748624430
• ISBN-10: 0748624430
• Artikelnr.: 36841353

Autorenporträt

Michele Aaron is Senior Lecturer in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Everywhere and Nowhere
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