Death in Documentaries

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