[Vwoolf] staging female author suicides

[Illya Nokhrin]

It seems to me that there is a perhaps slight but nonetheless significant
difference between the depiction of suicide in *The Hours* (film) and this
project insofar as* The Hours *attempted to portray Woolf's life and
(perhaps to a lesser extent) her battle with mental issues before
portraying her suicide whereas the Vice Magazine project shows readers only
the moment of suicide itself. Although perhaps the Vice spread also
contained some information about the authors and their lives?

I would argue that neither work did a very good job of portraying mental
illness (particularly not when it came to Woolf herself). Unless there was
a significant written component to the Vice piece that I'm not aware of, it
seems to me that the Vice Magazine project uses suicide as a jumping-off
point for an exploration of aesthetics (if I were to be generous) or (if I
were to be less generous) as a point of provocation rather than exploring
the deep and complex health issues that led these authors to suicide.

Just my two cents,
Illya


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Gregory Jordan Dekter <jdekter at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm just wondering of those who oppose this, are you equally offended by
> the portrayal of the same event in "The Hours"?
>
>
> On 18 June 2013 15:03, Anne Margaret Daniel <daniela at newschool.edu> wrote:
>
>> VICE has removed the online photos, not apologizing very much ("to anyone
>> who was hurt or offended") and stating, defensively, that their "main goal
>> is to create artful images, with the fashion message following, rather than
>> leading."  Taken down online, but still in print.
>> Here is the Vice statement:
>> http://www.vice.com/read/last-words-000741-v20n6
>> And here, still online at Inquisitr, is the photo of the model portraying
>> Woolf, standing in water and holding a large stone.  No words for it,
>> really.
>> http://www.inquisitr.com/793059/vices-suicide-fashion-apology/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melanie White <melanie.white at comcast.net
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617
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>> AMDaniel
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