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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.
Contents
List of Figures
1. IntroductionSection I: Institutional Voices
2. Medical Documentaries: Demedicalisation of Death
3. Hospice Documentaries: Responsibility to Care
4. Spiritual Documentaries: Making Death Meaningful
5. Advocacy Documentaries: Investigating the Legalisation of Assisted Dying
Section II: The Voices of Dying People
6. Performative Documentaries: Life-Affirming Stories about Mortality
7. Legacy Documentaries: Reaching beyond Death
8. Physical Documentaries: Experiencing the Process of Dying
9. Dialogical Documentaries: Understanding Personal End-of-Life Choices
Section III: Personal Voices
10. First-Person Documentaries: Filmmakers' Personal Journeys
11. Collaborative Documentaries: Intimate Testimonials of End of Life
12. Conclusion
Index
