Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary

by Jennifer Malkowski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822363151
• ISBN13: 9780822363156
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"