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Death in Classic and Contemporary Film: Fade to Black
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Hardcover. Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema. Editor(s): Sullivan, Daniel; Greenberg, Jeff. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema.
Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137276889
SKU
V9781137276889
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Alisabeth Ayars, University of Arizona, USA Peter Cowie, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Kirby Farrell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Mark Fergus, film writer and director Daniel Fockenberg, University of Freiburg, Germany Jamie L. Goldenberg, University of South Florida, USA Asbjørn Grønstad, University of Bergen, Norway Sander L. Koole, Free University, The Netherlands Mark J. Landau, University of ... Read more
Reviews for Death in Classic and Contemporary Film: Fade to Black
“Daniel Sullivan and Jeff Greenberg, professors of psychology at the University of Arizona, have compiled a fantastic selection of essays from several authors presenting various approaches to death in the cinema. This collection explores the issue of human mortality as portrayed in film, analyzing our fear of death and our desire to overcome it. … The book, overall, is gripping ... Read more