Dying in full detail : mortality and digital documentary /

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 p...

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Main Author: Malkowski, Jennifer, 1983- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2017]
Edition:[Open access version].
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505 0 |a Capturing the "moment" : photography, film, and death's elusive duration -- The art of dying, on video : deathbed documentaries -- "A negative pleasure" : suicide's digital sublimity -- Streaming death : the politics of dying on YouTube. 
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