Death in classic and contemporary film: Fade to black

Daniel Sullivan; Jeff Greenberg

doi:10.1057/9781137276896

Death in classic and contemporary film: Fade to black

Daniel Sullivan, Jeff Greenberg

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	263
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137276896
ISBN (Print)	9781137276889
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276896
State	Published - Oct 3 2013

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Psychology(all)

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