Jennifer Malkowski

Dying in Full Detail

Mortality and Digital Documentary

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Produktbeschreibung

In Dying in Full Detail Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and distribution of death footage, digital media often fail to live up to their promise to reveal the world in greater fidelity. Malkowski analyzes a wide range of death footage, from feature films about the terminally ill (Dying, Silverlake Life, Sick), to surreptitiously recorded suicides (The Bridge), to #BlackLivesMatter YouTube videos and their precursors. Contextualizing these recordings in the long history of attempts to capture the moment of death in American culture, Malkowski shows how digital media are unable to deliver death "in full detail," as its metaphysical truth remains beyond representation. Digital technology's capacity to record death does, however, provide the opportunity to politicize individual deaths through their representation. Exploring the relationships among technology, temporality, and the ethical and aesthetic debates about capturing death on video, Malkowski illuminates the key roles documentary death has played in twenty-first-century visual culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363156
• ISBN-10: 0822363151
• Artikelnr.: 44829171

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Malkowski is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Capturing the "Moment": Photography, Film, and Death's Elusive Duration 
23
2. The Art of Dying, On Video: Deathbed Documentaries  67
3. " A Negative Pleasure": Suicide's Digital Sublimity  109
4. Streaming Death: The Politics of Dying on YouTube  155
Conclusion. The Nearest Cameras Can Go  201
Notes  207
Bibliography  231
Index  241