Dying in Full Detail
Subtitle: Mortality and Digital Documentary
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: Mar 02, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780822363002
Description: In 'Dying in Full Detail' Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and distribution of death footage, digital media often fail to live up to their promise to reveal the world in greater fidelity. Malkowski analyzes a wide range of death footage, from feature films about the terminally ill (Dying, Silverlake Life, Sick), to surreptitiously recorded suicides (The Bridge), to #BlackLivesMatter YouTube videos and their precursors. Contextualizing these recordings in the long history of attempts to capture the moment of death in American culture, Malkowski shows how digital media are unable to deliver death "in full detail," as its metaphysical truth remains beyond representation.
Notes: Source title: Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary