Death in Documentaries : The Memento Mori Experience.

Intro -- Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Basics of Memento Mori -- From Art and Cultural History to Contemporary Documentary -- Features of Memento Mori and How Memento Mori Functions -- Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Documentaries -- A Rhetorically-Oriented Phenomenology Applied to Documentaries -- Composed Transformative Experience: Introducing Documentaries as Memento Mori -- The Program Ahead -- 1 Memento Mori in Art and Literature -- 1.1 Memento Mori in Art: As Symbol and as Picture -- 1.1.1 Memento Mori as Religious Image -- 1.1.2 Memento Mori as Still Life and as Portraiture -- 1.1.3 Memento Mori as Visual Quotation in Art, Including Photography -- 1.2 Memento Mori in Literature: As Verbal, Literary, and Ideational -- 1.2.1 Memento Mori as Picture Nomenclature and Verbal Instruction -- 1.2.2 Memento Mori as Reference in Literature: Verbatim and Ideational -- 1.3 Memento Mori in Film and Television -- 2 Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten as Memento Mori -- 2.1 The Eameses as Designers of Experiences that Communicate Ideas -- 2.2 Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Powers -- 2.2.1 Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational Memento Mori in Powers -- 2.2.2 Memento Mori as Mortality-Index in Powers -- 2.2.3 Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Powers -- 2.3 The Intellectually Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Powers -- 3 Memento Mori as "Consciousness of Mortality" and as a Cultural Phenomenon -- 3.1 Memento Mori is an Index of Death -- 3.1.1 Memento Mori (in Any Form) Refers to Death -- 3.1.2 Memento Mori Relies upon Consciousness, Memory in Particular -- 3.2 Memento Mori is Also an Artificial Convention.

3.2.1 Memento Mori is an Artifice with a History or Cultural Genealogy that Relies upon Particular Social Reception -- 3.2.2 Memento Mori Relates to Various and Specific Genres, Media, and Materials -- 3.3 Memento Mori as Composed Transformative Experience -- 3.3.1 General Aspects of Memento Mori Experience -- 3.3.2 Intellectually, Ethically, and Affectively Transformative Elements of Memento Mori Experience -- 3.4 A Contemporary Form of Memento Mori: Documentaries -- 4 Ethical Memento Mori: Wim Wenders's Notebook on Cities and Clothes -- 4.1 Wenders as Contemplative Documentarian of Mortals -- 4.2 Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Notebook -- 4.2.1 Memento Mori as Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational in Notebook -- 4.2.2 Memento Mori as Mortality-index in Notebook -- 4.2.3 Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Notebook -- 4.3 The Ethically Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Notebook -- 5 Documentaries as Contemporary Memento Mori -- 5.1 Documentaries Index Death -- 5.2 Documentaries Also Rely on Convention with a Particular History and Function -- 5.3 Documentaries as Composed Transformative Experience -- 5.3.1 Documentaries as Intellectually Transformative: Determining and Distinguishing the Real from Irreal -- 5.3.2 Documentaries as Ethically Transformative: Contemplating Appropriate Responses to the Mortal Condition -- 5.3.3 Documentaries as Affectively Transformative: Moving Individuals into Distinctive Human Experience -- 5.4 Levels of Analysis by Which Memento Mori is Identified in Specific Documentaries -- 6 Quintessential Memento Mori Experience: Derek Jarman's Blue -- 6.1 A Word on Jarman as Ecstatic Seer -- 6.2 Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Blue -- 6.2.1 Memento Mori as Verbal, Literary, and Ideational in Blue.

6.2.2 Memento Mori as Mortality-index and Convention in or Related to Blue -- 6.3 The Affectively Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Blue -- 7 Personal Memento Mori: The Iconic 9/11 Footage and the Threat of Death -- 7.1 The Viewer as Contemplative Seer of the Threat of Death -- 7.1.1 The 12th of September, 2001, Comet Burger Diner, USA -- 7.1.2 When Memento Mori Strikes Close -- 7.2 Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by the 9/11 Footage -- 7.2.1 Memento Mori as Symbolic, Ideational, and Composed in the 9/11 Footage -- 7.2.2 Memento Mori as Mediated Mortality-index, Indicated by the 9/11 Footage -- 7.3 Personally Transformative Points of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by the 9/11 Footage -- 7.3.1 Realizing One's Place as a Mortal in a Vast Cosmos -- 7.3.2 "Making one's life" as a Mortal in 21st Century "glocal" Society -- 7.3.3 Moving One's Self into Distinctive Human Experience -- 7.4 Counterpoint: Memento Mori as Death Threat in Extremist YouTube Videos -- 8 Conclusion and Future Prospects -- 8.1 After Death in Documentaries -- 8.2 From Memento Mori to Memento Vivere? -- 8.3 Memento Mori in New Media Environments -- References -- Bibliography -- Archives and Special Sites -- Footage -- Filmography (Chronological) -- Index.

In Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter suggests that documentaries are an especially apt form of contemporary memento mori; that is, documentaries offer transformative experiences for a viewer to renew one's consciousness of mortality.

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