A Beautiful Death: Visual Representation in Death With Dignity Storytelling

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dc.contributor.advisorBivins, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorStaton, David
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-27T18:51:22Z
dc.date.available2016-10-27T18:51:22Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-27
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation takes as its central topic visual narratives in Death with Dignity Storytelling and posits the author’s ideas of a beautiful death and the heard gaze. Its methodology includes a textual analysis of such images, which in turn leads to a typology, and the use of a digital tool to “sum images” to test the veracity of the typology. What creates the impulse to look at images of pain, suffering the withering body, the compulsion to bear witness to misery? That question is in part answered by Sontag (2003) Regarding the Pain of Others—“we are spectators of calamities” (p. 18)—and is evident in the indefinite pronoun that hangs at the end of the slim volume’s title. Because it is in those others, that we see ourselves. A Beautiful Death: Visual Representation in Death With Dignity Storytelling considers two case studies as examination and proofs of its claims.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/20522
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectDeath with dignityen_US
dc.subjectHeard gazeen_US
dc.subjectNarrativeen_US
dc.subjectRhetoricen_US
dc.subjectVisualen_US
dc.titleA Beautiful Death: Visual Representation in Death With Dignity Storytelling
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Journalism and Communication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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