Dying in full detail : : mortality and digital documentary / / Jennifer Malkowski.
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 u...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 pages) :; illustrations, photographs |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822373414 0822373416 9780822363002 0822363003 9780822363156 0822363151 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Jennifer Malkowski. |