Filming Death

End-of-Life Documentary Cinema

AvOuti Hakola

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

End-of-life documentaries have proliferated in the 21st century as various organisations, institutions, journalists, independent filmmakers, and members of the public have wanted to give death and dying a face in the public discussion. Each documentary film that concerns individuals with a terminal illness, in hospice care, or desiring assisted death, redefines cultural expectations of what dying is and feels like. These films invite their viewers to witness intimate and emotional moments of dying people, including moments on their deathbed. Filming Death explores these documentaries as ethical spaces, asking the viewers to learn how to engage with end-of-life through the experiences of others and to find ways to alleviate potential death anxiety. The book argues that the diversity of documentary films resists simplified moral divisions between good and bad death, and instead, embellishes diverse realities where dying takes many forms, ranging from death acceptance to raging to death.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:410 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399523271

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Outi Hakola is a Lecturer in the Department of Health and Social Management at the University of Eastern Finland.

Recensioner i media

In this highly engaging book, Outi Hakola offers an important contribution to the literature on mortality and cinema. Her work with end-of-life documentaries is guided by theoretical sophistication, empirical nuance, and ethical and emotional sensitivity. This book should be of interest to scholars in film, communication, death studies and psychology

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures1. IntroductionSection I: Institutional Voices2. Medical Documentaries: Demedicalisation of Death 3. Hospice Documentaries: Responsibility to Care4. Spiritual Documentaries: Making Death Meaningful5. Advocacy Documentaries: Investigating the Legalisation of Assisted DyingSection II: The Voices of Dying People6. Performative Documentaries: Life-Affirming Stories about Mortality7. Legacy Documentaries: Reaching beyond Death8. Physical Documentaries: Experiencing the Process of Dying9. Dialogical Documentaries: Understanding Personal End-of-Life ChoicesSection III: Personal Voices10. First-Person Documentaries: Filmmakers’ Personal Journeys11. Collaborative Documentaries: Intimate Testimonials of End of Life12. ConclusionIndex