Life flashes before your eyes when you are about to die » is an old myth which has been fixed in the collective imaginary, it seems natural that this phenomenon occurs in films too (from Abel Gance’s Napoléon to Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky). In order to find the origin of this image, it is important to consider it first and foremost as a real event, and thus seen from this angle, to approach it as a pathology of memory.
CLIL theme: 3157 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Sciences de l'information et de la communication
ISBN:978-2-406-08684-0
EAN:9782406086840
ISSN: 2491-2557
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08684-0.p.0125
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 11-12-2018
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: French
Keyword: Theory of cinema, aesthetics of cinema, psychology, psychanalysis, psychiatry