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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Combs, C. Scott (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:Film and culture.
Subjects:
Death in motion pictures.
Mortality in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Death in motion pictures
Mortality in motion pictures
Motion pictures
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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