Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience

by Bennett-Carpenter

Memento mori is a broad and understudied cultural phenomenon and experience. The term "memento mori" is a Latin injunction that means "remember mortality," or more directly, "remember that you must die." In art and cultural history, memento mori appears widely, especially in medieval folk culture and in the well-known Dutch still life vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Yet memento mori extends well beyond these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004356959
• ISBN13: 9789004356955
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"