![]() ![]() Beginning with the mythology of the so-called ‘snuff’ film and its evolution through popular culture, this book traces death and the artifice of death in the ‘mondo’ documentaries that emerged in the 1960s, and later the faux snuff pornography that found an audience through Necrobabes and similar websites. Killing for Culture explores these images of death and violence, and the human obsession with looking - and not looking - at them. ![]() Others are shot on high definition equipment, scripted and professionally edited by organized groups, such as the militant extremists known as Isis. Some of these films are created by lone individuals using shaky camera phones: Luka Magnotta, for instance, and the teenagers known as the Dnipropetrovsk maniacs. Little over a century later the executions are real and the world is aghast at brutalities freely available online at the click of a button. The father of the modern age, Thomas Edison, fed the appetite for this material with staged executions on film. Unlike images of sex, which were clandestine and screened only in private, images of death were made public from the onset of cinema. ![]()
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