Dying in Full Detail Mortality and Digital Documentary

Name: Dying in Full Detail Mortality and Digital Documentary
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ISBN: 9780822363156

ISBN-10: 0822363151

ISBN-13: 9780822363156

Edition: 2017

Authors: Jennifer Malkowski

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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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English