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Title Envisaging death : visual culture and dying / edited by Michele Aaron
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. One Memorial and Material Culture -- ch. One The Disappearing Gravestone: Changes in the Modern German Sepulchral Landscape / Felix Robin Schulz -- ch. Two Maintaining the Dead in the Lives of the Living: Material Culture and Photography in the Cemeteries of Mexico City / Marcel Reyes-Cortez -- ch. Three Wearing your Meat on your Sleeve: Mortality and Deathliness in Pinar Yolacan's Perishables / Rosemary Deller -- ch. Four Gazing at AIDS / Monica B. Pearl -- pt. Two Mortality and Media Event -- ch. Five Nowhere Man: John Lennon and Spectral Liminality / Cath Davies -- ch. Six ̀Studied in his Death': Representations of the Assassination of Malcolm X / Graeme Abernethy -- ch. Seven Visualisation of Death in Japan: The Case of the Flight JL123 Crash / Christopher P. Hood -- ch. Eight Shooting the Dead: Images of Death, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Israeli Press / Tal Morse -- pt. Three Mediating Life and Death: Theory and Practice -- ch. Nine Photography: Intimating Mortality, a Heideggerian Account of Photographic Authenticity / Katrin Joost -- ch. Ten Photo-graphing the Subject: Death, Cinema and the Gaze / Paul Fung -- ch. Eleven Rosetta Life: Using Film to Create "Bearable Fictions" of People's Experiences of Life-Limiting Illness / Naomi Richards -- ch. Twelve Life, Death and Beauty: Art as a Way of Accessing Grief / Tracy Mackenna -- ch. Thirteen Unsettling Structures of Otherness: Visualising the Dying Individual and End of Life Care Reform / John Horne
Summary Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying enters the expanding field of Death Studies and connects some of its key interpretive frameworks - such as issues of internment practice, trauma, or end of life care - to visual culture, and, more than that, to visual culture's socio-political, geographic and aesthetic specificities. Where the prevailing picture of death within this field is as a Western experience framed by its denial on one side and its sensationalism on the other, this collection ..
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Subject Death in art.
Death in motion pictures.
Documentary photography.
Sepulchral monuments.
documentary photography.
The arts.
Society & culture: general.
Sociology: death & dying.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
Death in art
Death in motion pictures
Documentary photography
Sepulchral monuments
Form Electronic book
Author Aaron, Michele, editor.
ISBN 9781443864190
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