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Item Details
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ZAPRUDERED
THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION FILM IN VISUAL CULTURE |
| By: |
Oyvind Vagnes |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£38.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0292728638 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780292728639 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2011 |
| Pages: |
223 |
| Description: |
This fascinating account examines how Abraham Zapruder's accidental footage of the Kennedy assassination has been transformed from documentary evidence to an aesthetic and cultural lodestone |
| Synopsis: |
As the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the traumatic aspects of the tragedy continue to haunt our perceptions of the 1960s. One reason for this lies in the home movie of the incident filmed by Abraham Zapruder, a bystander who became one of the twentieth century's most important accidental documentarians. The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Zaprudered traces the journey of the film and its effect on the world's collective imagination. Providing insightful perspective as an observer of American culture, Norwegian media studies scholar Oyvind Vagnes begins by analyzing three narratives that are projections of Zapruder's images: performance group Ant Farm's video The Eternal Frame, Don DeLillo's novel Underworld, and an episode from Seinfeld. Subsequent topics he investigates include Dealey Plaza's Sixth Floor Museum, Zoran Naskovski's installation Death in Dallas, assassin video games, and other artifacts of the ways in which the footage has made a lasting impact on popular culture and the historical imagination. Vagnes also explores the role of other accidental documentarians, such as those who captured scenes of 9/11.Zapruder's footage has never yielded a conclusive account of what happened in Dealey Plaza. Zaprudered thoroughly examines both this historical enigma and its indelible afterimages in our collective imagination. |
| Illustrations: |
19 b&w photographs |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Texas Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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