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Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
C. Scott Combs
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Description for Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
Paperback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, B&W Illus.: 23,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative films, early sound cinema, and films using voiceover or images of medical technology, C. Scott Combs connects the slow or static process of dying to formal film innovation throughout the twentieth century. He looks at Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903), D. W. Griffith's The Country Doctor (1909), John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941), Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stanley Kubrick's ... Read more
The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative films, early sound cinema, and films using voiceover or images of medical technology, C. Scott Combs connects the slow or static process of dying to formal film innovation throughout the twentieth century. He looks at Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903), D. W. Griffith's The Country Doctor (1909), John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941), Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stanley Kubrick's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231163477
SKU
V9780231163477
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About C. Scott Combs
C. Scott Combs is associate professor of English at St. John's University in New York City.
Reviews for Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
Genuinely exciting and brimming with original insights. Given cinema's eternal fascination with death, coupled with film theory's obsessive need to explore the crossroads of photographic representation and the end of life, Combs's ambitious attempts to interweave these concerns are welcome and illuminating.
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Adam Lowenstein, author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film Combs shows ... Read more