Deathwatch : : American Film, Technology, and the End of Life / / C. Scott Combs.
The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative films, early sound cinema, and films usi...
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Combs, C. Scott, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Deathwatch : American Film, Technology, and the End of Life / C. Scott Combs. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (288 p.) : ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›23. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Film and Culture Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mortal Recoil -- 2. Posthumous Motion -- 3. Echo and Hum -- 4. Seconds -- 5. Terminal Screens -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative films, early sound cinema, and films using voiceover or images of medical technology, C. Scott Combs connects the slow or static process of dying to formal film innovation throughout the twentieth century. He looks at Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903), D. W. Griffith's The Country Doctor (1909), John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941), Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004), among other films, to argue against the notion that film cannot capture the end of life because it cannot stop moving forward. Instead, he shows how the end of dying occurs more than once and in more than one place, understanding death in cinema as constantly in flux, wedged between technological precision and embodied perception. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Death in motion pictures. Mortality in motion pictures. Motion pictures États-Unis Histoire et critique. Motion pictures États-Unis. Motion pictures United States History and criticism. Motion pictures United States. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665864 print 9780231163477 https://doi.org/10.7312/comb16346 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231538039 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231538039/original |
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