Zaprudered : The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture /
Vågnes, Øyvind
Zaprudered : The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture / Øyvind Vågnes. - 1 online resource (223 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- One. Owning, Showing, Telling -- Two. Eternally Framed -- Three. Inside the Zapruder Museum -- Four. No Hugging, No Learning -- Five. Pleasing to the Eye -- Six. Death in Dallas -- Seven. Oswald’s Window -- Eight. Traveling Images -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
As the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the traumatic aspects of the tragedy continue to haunt our perceptions of the 1960s. One reason for this lies in the home movie of the incident filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a bystander who became one of the twentieth century's most important accidental documentarians. The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Zaprudered traces the journey of the film and its effect on the world's collective imagination. Providing insightful perspective as an observer of American culture, Norwegian media studies scholar Øyvind Vågnes begins by analyzing three narratives that are projections of Zapruder's images: performance group Ant Farm's video The Eternal Frame, Don DeLillo's novel Underworld, and an episode from Seinfeld. Subsequent topics he investigates include Dealey Plaza's Sixth Floor Museum, Zoran Naskovski's installation Death in Dallas, assassin video games, and other artifacts of the ways in which the footage has made a lasting impact on popular culture and the historical imagination. Vågnes also explores the role of other accidental documentarians, such as those who captured scenes of 9/11. Zapruder's footage has never yielded a conclusive account of what happened in Dealey Plaza. Zaprudered thoroughly examines both this historical enigma and its indelible afterimages in our collective imagination.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292735514
10.7560/728639 doi
2011014036
Amateur films--History--Texas--Dallas--20th century.
Memory--Political aspects--United States.
Motion pictures and history.
PERFORMING ARTS / General.
E842.9 / .V35 2011 E842.9 / .V35 2011
973.922092
Zaprudered : The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture / Øyvind Vågnes. - 1 online resource (223 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- One. Owning, Showing, Telling -- Two. Eternally Framed -- Three. Inside the Zapruder Museum -- Four. No Hugging, No Learning -- Five. Pleasing to the Eye -- Six. Death in Dallas -- Seven. Oswald’s Window -- Eight. Traveling Images -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
As the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the traumatic aspects of the tragedy continue to haunt our perceptions of the 1960s. One reason for this lies in the home movie of the incident filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a bystander who became one of the twentieth century's most important accidental documentarians. The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Zaprudered traces the journey of the film and its effect on the world's collective imagination. Providing insightful perspective as an observer of American culture, Norwegian media studies scholar Øyvind Vågnes begins by analyzing three narratives that are projections of Zapruder's images: performance group Ant Farm's video The Eternal Frame, Don DeLillo's novel Underworld, and an episode from Seinfeld. Subsequent topics he investigates include Dealey Plaza's Sixth Floor Museum, Zoran Naskovski's installation Death in Dallas, assassin video games, and other artifacts of the ways in which the footage has made a lasting impact on popular culture and the historical imagination. Vågnes also explores the role of other accidental documentarians, such as those who captured scenes of 9/11. Zapruder's footage has never yielded a conclusive account of what happened in Dealey Plaza. Zaprudered thoroughly examines both this historical enigma and its indelible afterimages in our collective imagination.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292735514
10.7560/728639 doi
2011014036
Amateur films--History--Texas--Dallas--20th century.
Memory--Political aspects--United States.
Motion pictures and history.
PERFORMING ARTS / General.
E842.9 / .V35 2011 E842.9 / .V35 2011
973.922092