Women and Death in Film, Television, and News [electronic resource] : Dead but Not Gone /
Dillman, Joanne Clarke.author.
Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Film Narratives, Dead Women, and Their Meaning in a Changing World; Chapter 3 Family Films Gone Terribly Wrong; Chapter 4 Television Narratives and Dead Women; Chapter 5 News-Mediated Narratives of Disappearance; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.
Motion pictures-History.
Sociology.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Film genres.
Communication.
Film History.
Gender Studies.
Screen Studies.
Arts.
Genre.
Media Studies.