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Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience
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ISBN10: 9004356959
ISBN13: 9789004356955
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 23 2017
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789004356955
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 23 2017
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Memento mori is a broad and understudied cultural phenomenon and experience. The term memento mori is a Latin injunction that means remember mortality, or more directly, remember that you must die. In art and cultural history, memento mori appears widely, especially in medieval folk culture and in the well-known Dutch still life vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Yet memento mori extends well beyond these points in art and cultural history. In Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter suggests that documentaries are an especially apt form of contemporary memento mori. Bennett-Carpenter shows that documentaries may offer composed transformative experiences in which a viewer may renew one's consciousness of mortality - and thus renew one's life.
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