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Death and the Moving Image - Ideology, Iconography and I (Hardcover)
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Death and the Moving Image - Ideology, Iconography and I (Hardcover)
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This book examines the representation of death and dying in
mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving Image reveals the
ambivalent place of death in 20th and 21st century culture: the
ongoing split between its over- and under-statement, between its
cold realities and its fantastical, transcendental and, most
importantly, strategic depictions. Our screens are steeped in
death's dramatics: in spectacles of glorious sacrifice or bloody
retribution, in the ecstasy of agony, but always in the promise of
redemption. This book is about the staging of these dramatics in
mainstream Western film and the discrepancies that fuel them and
are, by return, fuelled by them. Exploring the impact of gender,
race, nation or narration upon them, this groundbreaking study
isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain
lives, and specific socio-cultural identities, in a hierarchical
and partisan way. It examines the formal, psychological and
political exchange between cinema and death. It is accessible
'before, during, after' structure: of death's presence as narrative
promise, physical event and spectatorial reaction. It considers how
filmmaking practice or visual medium affect the representation of
death and its cultural significance.
General
Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2014 |
First published: |
February 2014 |
Authors: |
Michele Aaron
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7486-2443-0 |
Categories: |
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Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
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LSN: |
0-7486-2443-0 |
Barcode: |
9780748624430 |
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