killing for culture: From Edison to ISIS: A New History of Death on Film by David Kerekes

killing for culture: From Edison to ISIS: A New History of Death on Film

David Kerekes

646 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction dark informative medium-paced

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Unlike images of sex, which were clandestine and screened only in private, images of death were made public from the onset of cinema. The father of the modern age, Thomas Edison, fed the appetite for this material with staged executions on film. L...

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