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- Title
Cinema and Suicide: Necromanticism, Dead-already-ness, and the Logic of the Vanishing Point.
- Authors
AARON, MICHELE
- Abstract
This article explores fiction film's limited but highly symbolic representation of suicide, of, that is, an individual's witting or self-willed self-killing. In doing so, it distinguishes mainstream cinema's mortal economies. These, the death-dealing visual and narrative logic of film itself, depend on the interplay of identity and power, of--more immediately-gender, nation, and race. This complex interplay is animated here through an analysis of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Hany Abu-Assad's Oscar-nominated film Paradise Now(2005) and comes to determine my identification of mainstream cinema as necropolitical.
- Subjects
SUICIDE in motion pictures; VIRGIN Suicides, The (Film); PARADISE Now (Film); COPPOLA, Sofia, 1971-; ABU-Assad, Hany, 1961-; MOTION picture plots &; themes
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 2, p71
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2014.0019