Re: Media narratives as allegories of mortality?

Hi Dana,

This seems very reminiscent of the *Fables *plot line -- once someone's
story stops being told, they die.

Hope this helps!
Stephanie

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:50 AM, Bradbury Rance, Clara <
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> Dana, this is the very framing device of Rupert Everett’s Wilde biopic *The
> Happy Prince.*
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> On 18 Sep 2018, at 20:27, Juan Poblete <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Dana: if you haven't already, check out Kiss of the Spider Woman by
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> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Dana Polan <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> I’d especially love any example of a record (45 or 48) where the ending
>> of the song is associated with mortality.
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>> Thanks!
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