Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
â Basics of Memento Mori
â From Art and Cultural History to Contemporary Documentary
â Features of Memento Mori and How Memento Mori Functions
â Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Documentaries
â A Rhetorically-Oriented Phenomenology Applied to Documentaries
â Composed Transformative Experience: Introducing Documentaries as Memento Mori
â The Program Ahead
1 Memento Mori in Art and Literature
â 1.1â Memento Mori in Art: As Symbol and as Picture
â â 1.1.1â Memento Mori as Religious Image
â â 1.1.2â Memento Mori as Still Life and as Portraiture
â â 1.1.3â Memento Mori as Visual Quotation in Art, Including Photography
â 1.2â Memento Mori in Literature: As Verbal, Literary, and Ideational
â â 1.2.1â Memento Mori as Picture Nomenclature and Verbal Instruction
â â 1.2.2â Memento Mori as Reference in Literature: Verbatim and Ideational
â 1.3â Memento Mori in Film and Television
2 Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten as Memento Mori
â 2.1â The Eameses as Designers of Experiences that Communicate Ideas
â 2.2â Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Powers
â â 2.2.1â Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational Memento Mori in Powers
â â 2.2.2â Memento Mori as Mortality-Index in Powers
â â 2.2.3â Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Powers
â 2.3â The Intellectually Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Powers
3 Memento Mori as "Consciousness of Mortality" and as a Cultural Phenomenon
â 3.1â Memento Mori is an Index of Death
â â 3.1.1â Memento Mori (in Any Form) Refers to Death
â â 3.1.2â Memento Mori Relies upon Consciousness, Memory in Particular
â 3.2â Memento Mori is Also an Artificial Convention
â â 3.2.1â Memento Mori is an Artifice with a History or Cultural Genealogy that Relies upon Particular Social Reception
â â 3.2.2â Memento Mori Relates to Various and Specific Genres, Media, and Materials
â 3.3â Memento Mori as Composed Transformative Experience
â â 3.3.1â General Aspects of Memento Mori Experience
â â 3.3.2â Intellectually, Ethically, and Affectively Transformative Elements of Memento Mori Experience
â 3.4â A Contemporary Form of Memento Mori: Documentaries
4 Ethical Memento Mori: Wim Wenders's Notebook on Cities and Clothes
â 4.1â Wenders as Contemplative Documentarian of Mortals
â 4.2â Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Notebook
â â 4.2.1â Memento Mori as Symbolic, Verbal, and Ideational in Notebook
â â 4.2.2â Memento Mori as Mortality-index in Notebook
â â 4.2.3â Memento Mori as Convention and Experience in or Related to Notebook
â 4.3â The Ethically Transformative Point of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by Notebook
5 Documentaries as Contemporary Memento Mori
â 5.1â Documentaries Index Death
â 5.2â Documentaries Also Rely on Convention with a Particular History and Function
â 5.3â Documentaries as Composed Transformative Experience
â â 5.3.1â Documentaries as Intellectually Transformative: Determining and Distinguishing the Real from Irreal
â â 5.3.2â Documentaries as Ethically Transformative: Contemplating Appropriate Responses to the Mortal Condition
â â 5.3.3â Documentaries as Affectively Transformative: Moving Individuals into Distinctive Human Experience
â 5.4â Levels of Analysis by Which Memento Mori is Identified in Specific Documentaries
6 Quintessential Memento Mori Experience: Derek Jarman's Blue (1993)
â 6.1â A Word on Jarman as Ecstatic Seer
â 6.2â Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by Blue
â â 6.2.1â Memento Mori as Verbal, Literary, and Ideational in Blue
â â 6.2.2â Memento Mori as Mortality-index and convention in or related to Blue
â 6.3â 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
â 7.1â The Viewer as Contemplative Seer of the Threat of Death
â â 7.1.1â The 12th of September, 2001, Comet Burger Diner, usa
â â 7.1.2â When Memento Mori Strikes Close
â 7.2â Levels at Which Memento Mori is Referenced by the 9/11 Footage
â â 7.2.1â Memento Mori as Symbolic, Ideational, and Composed in the 9/11 Footage
â â 7.2.2â Memento Mori as Mediated Mortality-index, Indicated by the 9/11 Footage
â 7.3â Personally Transformative Points of Memento Mori Experience, Referenced by the 9/11 Footage
â â 7.3.1â Realizing One's Place as a Mortal in a Vast Cosmos
â â 7.3.2â "Making one's life" as a Mortal in 21st Century "glocal" Society
â â 7.3.3â Moving One's Self into Distinctive Human Experience
â 7.4â Counterpoint: Memento Mori as Death Threat in Extremist YouTube Videos
8 Conclusion and Future Prospects
â 8.1â After Death in Documentaries
â 8.2â From Memento Mori to Memento Vivere?
â 8.3â Memento Mori in New Media Environments
References
â Bibliography
â Archives and Special Sites
â Footage
â Filmography (Chronological)
Index