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  title info:
    title: Dying in full detail
    sub title: mortality and digital documentary
  name:
    name part: Malkowski, Jennifer
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: [Open access version].
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: 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. Digital technology's capacity to record death does, however, provide the opportunity to politicize individual deaths through their representation. Exploring the relationships among technology, temporality, and the ethical and aesthetic debates about capturing death on video, Malkowski illuminates the key roles documentary death has played in twenty-first-century visual culture.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Jennifer Malkowski.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Documentary films
    topic: Production and direction
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Documentary mass media
  subject:
    topic: Death in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Digital cinematography
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Documentaires
    topic: Production et réalisation
    topic: Aspect moral
  subject:
    topic: Médias documentaires
  subject:
    topic: Mort au cinéma
  subject:
    topic: Cinéma numérique
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Death in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Documentary mass media
  subject:
    topic: Dokumentarfilm
  subject:
    topic: Sterben
  subject:
    topic: Documentary films
    topic: Production and direction
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Documentary mass media
  subject:
    topic: Death in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Digital cinematography
    topic: Technique
  classification: PN1995.9.D6 M33 2017
  classification: 070.1/8
  identifier: 9781478091080
  identifier: 1478091088
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 220404
    record change date: 20250425172123.1
    record identifier: in00005643521
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng