TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malkowski,Jennifer
TI  - Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary 
SN  - 9781478091080
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/b1ed18ca-feb3-4b25-8392-48aa56ba91c9
ER  -