TY - BOOK AU - Combs,C.Scott TI - Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life T2 - Film and Culture Series SN - 9780231163477 AV - PN1995.9.D37 C66 2014 U1 - 791.43/6548 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - Death in motion pictures KW - Mortality in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire et critique KW - United States KW - History and criticism KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/comb16346 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231538039 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231538039/original ER -