Deathwatch : American Film, Technology, and the End of Life /
Combs, C. Scott
Deathwatch : American Film, Technology, and the End of Life / C. Scott Combs. - 1 online resource (288 p.) : ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›23. - Film and Culture Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mortal Recoil -- 2. Posthumous Motion -- 3. Echo and Hum -- 4. Seconds -- 5. Terminal Screens -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 century. He looks at Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903), D. W. Griffith's The Country Doctor (1909), John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941), Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004), among other films, to argue against the notion that film cannot capture the end of life because it cannot stop moving forward. Instead, he shows how the end of dying occurs more than once and in more than one place, understanding death in cinema as constantly in flux, wedged between technological precision and embodied perception.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231163477 9780231538039
10.7312/comb16346 doi
2014001350
Death in motion pictures.
Mortality in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--États-Unis--Histoire et critique.
Motion pictures--États-Unis.
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures--United States.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
PN1995.9.D37 / C66 2014 PN1995.9D37 / C66 2014eb
791.43/6548
Deathwatch : American Film, Technology, and the End of Life / C. Scott Combs. - 1 online resource (288 p.) : ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›23. - Film and Culture Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mortal Recoil -- 2. Posthumous Motion -- 3. Echo and Hum -- 4. Seconds -- 5. Terminal Screens -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 century. He looks at Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903), D. W. Griffith's The Country Doctor (1909), John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941), Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004), among other films, to argue against the notion that film cannot capture the end of life because it cannot stop moving forward. Instead, he shows how the end of dying occurs more than once and in more than one place, understanding death in cinema as constantly in flux, wedged between technological precision and embodied perception.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231163477 9780231538039
10.7312/comb16346 doi
2014001350
Death in motion pictures.
Mortality in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--États-Unis--Histoire et critique.
Motion pictures--États-Unis.
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--United States
Motion pictures--United States.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
PN1995.9.D37 / C66 2014 PN1995.9D37 / C66 2014eb
791.43/6548