Isbn: 9780231163477 - deathwatch: american film, technology, and the end of life (film and culture) (15 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: New. 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.…

Zustand: New. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, B&W Illus.: 23, BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390. . 2014. Paperback. . . . .

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Zustand: New. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, B&W Illus.: 23, BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Paperback. Zustand: New. 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.…

Zustand: New. While cinema is a medium with a unique ability to watch life and write movement, it is equally singular in its portrayal of death. The first study to unpack American cinemas long history of representing death, this book considers movie sequences in which th.

Paperback. Zustand: Neu. Neu Neu - Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - While cinema is a medium with a unique ability to watch life and write movement, it is equally singular in its portrayal of death. The first study to unpack American cinemas long history of representing death, this book considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera and connects the slow or static process of dying to formal film innovation throughout the twentieth century.…

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