Enclaves existencialesla enfermedad terminal en la pantalla

  1. Lorena Amorós Blasco 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Journal:
Aisthesis: Revista chilena de investigaciones estéticas

ISSN: 0718-7181,  0568-3939

Year of publication: 2017

Issue: 61

Pages: 79-92

Type: Article

DOI: 10.7764/AISTH.61.5 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

is paper explores the lmic trajectories experienced by the protagonists in two case studies: Lightning Over Water (1979) by Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders, and Sick, e Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1996) by Kirby Dick. In both lms, the limitexperience, caused by a disease, becomes an active device, one that produces knowledge for the protagonists. In this radical experience, what is revealed is the link between selfrepresentation and a will to self-destruction, and the normative margins of rationality are questioned. Based on the studies of Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean Baudrillard and Clément Rosset, this essay examines an approach to terminal illness and self-representation both in the context of pain and the voyeuristic process of death as a spectacle.

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