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Love's revival : film practice and the art of dying

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Aaron, Michele (2020) Love's revival : film practice and the art of dying. Film-Philosophy, 24 (2). pp. 83-103. doi:10.3366/film.2020.0133

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Abstract

Dying serves so often within the narratives of Western popular culture, as an exercise in self-improvement both to the individual dying and to those looking on. It enlightens, ennobles and renders exceptional all those affected by it. Though mainstream cinema's “grammar of dying” is mired in similar myths, film has the potential to do dying differently: it can, instead, connect us, ethically, to the vulnerability of others. The aim of this article is to pursue this potential of film. Using the mainstream grammar of dying as a starting point, I will consider how the moving image, and this ethical potential, is harnessed within two hybrid-media pieces about a loved-one's decline and death: George Saxon's art installation, “A Record of Undying” (2014) and photographer Briony Campbell's short film The Dad Project (2009). While these works will be located within the traditions and transformations of moving image practice, the primary concern here is with how such emotionally resonant pieces navigate our relation to, and responsibility for, our own and others' harsh realities. In this way, the question of ethics is grounded not in the solipsistic circuits of affective modes – whether as the catharsis or betterment of mainstream myths, or what Jane Stadler privileges as the ethical effects of empathy – but in something more inherently, more inevitably, political

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Motion pictures -- Philosophy, Death in motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Film-Philosophy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISSN: 1466-4615
Official Date: 1 June 2020
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1 June 2020Published
23 February 2020Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 26 March 2020
Volume: 24
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 83-103
DOI: 10.3366/film.2020.0133
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
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