Beschreibung:
Jennifer Malkowski is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith College.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Capturing the "Moment": Photography, Film, and Death's Elusive Duration 23 2. The Art of Dying, On Video: Deathbed Documentaries 67 3. " A Negative Pleasure": Suicide's Digital Sublimity 109 4. Streaming Death: The Politics of Dying on YouTube 155 Conclusion. The Nearest Cameras Can Go 201 Notes 207 Bibliography 231 Index 241