Re: Media narratives as allegories of mortality?

Hi Dana: if you haven't already, check out Kiss of the Spider Woman by
Manuel Puig.
Best,
Juan


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Dana Polan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I’m looking for examples where the playing out of a narrative in some
> medium is connected to an idea of mortality.  What I mean by this is:
>
> —something like the classic idea of 1001 Nights:  if you finish telling
> the story, you get executed;
> —at the end of the film of Fahrenheit 451 where an old man who’s taught
> his grandson to memorize and recite a Dickens’s novel that ends with a
> deathbed scene himself dies as his grandson successfully finishes reciting
> the novel;
> —Yuri Tsivian in his book on Russian film before the revolution notes that
> the ribbon of film going through a projector was memorialized in some
> poetry as the ribbon of life.  When the film runs out, the life runs out.
>
> So I don’t mean something like the Ringu/Ring films where the idea is to
> consume media is to die.  It’s more:  once a narrative ends, life ends.
>
> I’d especially love any example of a record (45 or 48) where the ending of
> the song is associated with mortality.
>
> Thanks!
>
> —Dana Polan
> Professor
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