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Aaron, Michele (2014) Death and the moving image : ideology, iconography and I. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748624430
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Official URL: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/942423203
Abstract
Death and the Moving Image reveals the ambivalent place of death in twentieth and twenty-first century culture: the ongoing split between its over- and under-statement, between its cold, bodily, realities and its fantastical, transcendental and, most importantly, strategic depictions. Our screens are steeped in death’s dramatics: in spectacles of glorious sacrifice or bloody retribution, in the ecstasy of agony, but always in the promise of redemption. This book is about the staging of these dramatics in mainstream Western film and the discrepancies that fuel them and are, by return, fuelled by them. Exploring the impact of gender, race, nation or narration upon them, this groundbreaking study isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain lives, and specific socio-cultural identities, in a hierarchical and partisan way.
| Item Type: | Book | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||
| ISBN: | 9780748624430 | ||||
| Official Date: | 1 January 2014 | ||||
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| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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