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Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas
Catherine Russell
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Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Analyzes New Wave cinema from a postmodern perspective.
What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell shows us in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s. Analyzing the structural importance of death in narrative endings, as well as the thematics of loss and redemption, Russell identifies mortality as a valuable critical tool for understanding the cinema of the second half of the twentieth century. Her work includes close textual readings of films by Fritz Lang, Wim Wenders, Oshima Nagisa, Jean-Luc Godard, and Robert Altman, among others.
In these analyses, Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between ... Read moreNarrative Mortality provides fresh insight into the dynamics of postmodern cinema as it emerged from the modernist preoccupation with existential mortality. By tracing the role of death from a work that precedes the Brechtian cinema of the 1960s (Beyond a Reasonable Doubt) to several that succeed it (Nashville, The State of Things), the book expands the narrative project of New Wave cinema and ushers it onto a broader historical plane. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816624867
SKU
V9780816624867
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About Catherine Russell
Catherine Russell teaches in the department of cinema at Concordia University, Montreal.
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