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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Film and Culture Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›23. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Mortal Recoil
- 2. Posthumous Motion
- 3. Echo and Hum
- 4. Seconds
- 5. Terminal Screens
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter