TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Cinema and suicide: necromanticism, dead-already-ness, and the logic of the vanishing point
JO  - Cinema journal
A1  - Aaron, Michele
SP  - 71
EP  - 92
VL  - 53
IS  - 2
N2  - This article explores fiction film's limited but highly symbolic representation of suicide, of, that is, an individual's witting or self-willed self-killing. In doing so, it distinguishes mainstream cinema's mortal economies. These, the death-dealing visual and narrative logic of film itself, depend on the interplay of identity and power, of--more immediately--gender, nation, and race. This complex interplay is animated here through an analysis of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Hany Abu-Assad's Oscar-nominated film Paradise Now (2005) and comes to determine my identification of mainstream cinema as necropolitical.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1527-2087
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2014.0019
ID  - ref1
ER  -