There exists an extensive bibliography on the subject of death and the cinema, addressed from a historical, aesthetic as well as ethical point of view. The aim of the present chapter therefore is to interrogate the paradoxical proximity between the invisibility and hyper-visibility of death on screen on the one hand, and cinema’s capacity to recreate the conditions and experience of a collective mediation for “ordinary” death on the other. This issue of mediation is rarely explored, yet it relates to one of the great topoi of media studies today: that of the death of the cinema itself.
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.0047
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 11-12-2018
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: French
Keyword: Cinema, video art, media studies, ethics, anthropology