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ลำดับตอนที่ #18 : The story of the journalist who shot herself on live TV
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160201-christine-chubbuck-the-broadcaster-who-shot-herself-on-air
Christine Chubbuck: The broadcaster who shot herself
on air
In 1974 a newsreader named
Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on live TV. Her story has been largely
forgotten, but two new films try to unravel why she did it.
By
Christian Blauvelt
1 February 2016
"In
keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in 'blood and guts', and in
living colour, you are going to see another first – attempted suicide."
Those were the last words of TV newsreader Christine Chubbuck. She then pulled
out a revolver from a bag of puppets
she kept under her desk, pointed the gun at the back of her head and pulled the
trigger. All while the cameras rolled.
Chubbuck
was a broadcaster for a local news station in Sarasota, Florida, and when she
committed suicide on-air on 15 July 1974, a minor panic occurred in the community. Her
audience had been small but many called the police to report the incident. Chubbuck
herself was rushed to hospital and was pronounced dead about 14 hours later.
The video footage of her death was sealed away by the station’s management and has not been seen
since.
Over
the decades Chubbuck’s suicide was forgotten, but, remarkably, two different
films exploring her life just had their premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Park
City, Utah. Christine, directed by Antonio Campos, stars Rebecca Hall as the TV
journalist in a straightforward dramatisation of the story, and it shows the escalating frustrations
that may have led her to end her life. Kate Plays Christine, directed by Robert
Greene, is a more subversive
deconstruction of
the story. It’s a documentary about an actress, Kate Lyn Sheil, who attempts to
play the role of Chubbuck and finds herself both obsessed with her story but
slowly realising that there can be no explanation for her actions.
For
Talking Movies, Christian Blauvelt looks at these two films that attempt to
locate the humanity
behind the sensationalism.
unravel (v.)
If you
unravel a mysterious, unknown, or complicatedsubject, you make it known or understood, and if it unravels, it becomes known or understood:
'blood and
guts',
puppets (n.)
a toy in the shape of a person or animal that you can
movewith
strings or by
putting your hand inside
a person or group whose actions are controlledby someone else:
minor (adj.)
having
little importance, influence, or effect,
especially when
compared with
other things of the same type:
incident (n.)
an event that is either unpleasant or unusual:
premiere (n.)
the first public performance of
a play or any
other type of entertainment:
escalating
(v.)
to become or make
something become greater or more serious:
subversive (adj.)
trying to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system:
deconstruction
(n.)
the act of breaking something down into its separate parts in order to understand its meaning, especially when
this is different from how it was previously understood:
sensationalism
(n.)
the act by newspapers, television, etc. of presentinginformation in
a way that is be shocking or exciting:
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