Dying in Full Detail
Mortality and Digital Documentary
Seiten
2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6315-6 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6315-6 (ISBN)
In analyses of digital death footage—from victims of police brutality to those who jump from the Golden Gate Bridge—Jennifer Malkowski considers the immense changes digital technologies have introduced in the ability to record and display actual deaths—one of documentary's most taboo and politically volatile subjects.
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. Digital technology's capacity to record death does, however, provide the opportunity to politicize individual deaths through their representation. Exploring the relationships among technology, temporality, and the ethical and aesthetic debates about capturing death on video, Malkowski illuminates the key roles documentary death has played in twenty-first-century visual culture.
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. Digital technology's capacity to record death does, however, provide the opportunity to politicize individual deaths through their representation. Exploring the relationships among technology, temporality, and the ethical and aesthetic debates about capturing death on video, Malkowski illuminates the key roles documentary death has played in twenty-first-century visual culture.
Jennifer Malkowski is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Capturing the "Moment": Photography, Film, and Death's Elusive Duration 23
2. The Art of Dying, On Video: Deathbed Documentaries 67
3. " A Negative Pleasure": Suicide's Digital Sublimity 109
4. Streaming Death: The Politics of Dying on YouTube 155
Conclusion. The Nearest Cameras Can Go 201
Notes 207
Bibliography 231
Index 241
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.02.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 21 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Film- / Video-Bearbeitung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-6315-1 / 0822363151 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-6315-6 / 9780822363156 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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