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Death and the Moving Image - Ideology, Iconography and I (Paperback)
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Death and the Moving Image - Ideology, Iconography and I (Paperback)
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This book examines the representation of death and dying in
mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving Image provides the first in
depth study of the representation of death and dying in mainstream
Western cinema from its earliest to its latest renditions. It
explores the impact of gender, race, nation and narration upon
death's dramatics on screen and isolates how mainstream cinema
works to bestow value upon certain lives, and specific socio
cultural identities, in a hierarchical and partisan way. Dedicated
to the popular, to the political and ethical implications of mass
culture's themes and imperatives, this book takes mainstream cinema
to task for its mortal economies: for its adoration and absolution
of some characters and expendability of others. It also ultimately
disinters the capacity for film, and film criticism, to engage with
life and vulnerability differently. Aimed at the burgeoning field
of death studies and explosion of interest in trauma and ethics
within film studies, this book charts important new territory for
the discipline whilst arguing for the centrality of this subject to
the socio political significance of cinema. It examines the formal,
psychological and political exchange between cinema and death. It
offers an accessible 'before, during, after' structure, of death's
presence as narrative promise, physical event and spectatorial
reaction. It also provides a comparative and interdisciplinary
approach to film (draws on critical race, political theory and mise
en scene analysis and case studies from beyond Western and fiction
film).
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