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Death in motion pictures --- Horror films --- Monsters in motion pictures --- History and criticism

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"The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. "Corpse chic" and "skull style" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking"--

Death. --- Death in popular culture. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Culture. --- Death in literature. --- Death in motion pictures.

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Will Smith in I Am Legend. Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. Charlton Heston in just about everything. Viewers of Hollywood action films are no doubt familiar with the sacrificial victim-hero, the male protagonist who nobly gives up his life so that others may be saved. Washed in Blood argues that such sacrificial films are especially prominent in eras when the nation—and American manhood—is thought to be in crisis. The sacrificial victim-hero, continually imperiled and frequently exhibiting classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, thus bears the trauma of the nation. Claire Sisco King offers an in-depth study of three prominent cycles of Hollywood films that follow the sacrificial narrative: the early–to–mid 1970's, the mid–to–late 1990's, and the mid–to–late 2000's. From Vietnam-era disaster movies to post-9/11 apocalyptic thrillers, she examines how each film represents traumatized American masculinity and national identity. What she uncovers is a cinematic tendency to position straight white men as America’s most valuable citizens—and its noblest victims.

Psychic trauma in motion pictures. --- Sacrifice in motion pictures. --- Death in motion pictures. --- Heroes in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures

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Motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Love in motion pictures --- Death in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Philosophy --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Influence

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Etre au-delà n'entend pas dresser une typologie des représentations de la mort au cinéma, mais plutôt de réfléchir au lien existant entre un art qui fait, étymologiquement, de l'écriture du mouvement son ambition et un événement qui a lieu chez tous les êtres vivants puisqu'il en conditionne la définition même. Filmer le vivant permet d'entretenir un rapport avec la mort : la conservation de ce qui s'échappe des êtres capturés par l'objectif est précieux. Nous regardons quelque chose qui n'est plus et, de fait, avons la possibilité, d'essayer d'y percevoir les glissements imperceptibles qui les entraînent vers un terme. La notion d'ensemble que revêt le film de par le montage qui a contribué à l'élaborer peut effectivement et rétrospectivement permettre à ce point final d'exister. Une expérience au-delà du sensible. Maîtrise du tout et de la partie : c'est à partir de ces qualités que se développe ce livre qui parlera autant de Federico Fellini que de John Wayne, autant de Torture Porn que de western classique, tant ce qui est son coeur est la base palpitante, émouvante, fébrile de toutes les formes de cinéma qui n'évoquent la mort que pour mieux rêver à ce qui peut la dépasser.

Mort --- Au cinéma --- Cinéma --- Mort. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Motion pictures --- Death in motion pictures --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Au cinéma.