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Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
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Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life Hardback - 2014

by C. Scott Combs

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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 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004), among other films, to argue against the notion that film cannot capture the end of life because it cannot stop moving forward. Instead, he shows how the end of dying occurs more than once and in more than one place, understanding death in cinema as constantly in flux, wedged between technological precision and embodied perception.

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  • Title Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
  • Author C. Scott Combs
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Publication date 2014
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780231163460 / 0231163460
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Film
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Death in motion pictures, Motion pictures - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014001350
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

About the author

C. Scott Combs is associate professor of English at St. John's University in New York City.
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