Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
(Part of the Film and Culture Series Series)
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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 using voiceover or images of medical technology, C. Scott Combs connects the slow or static process of dying to formal film innovation throughout the twentieth...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231163479
ISBN13:9780231163477
Release Date:September 2014
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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