Mourning films
Subtitle: a critical study of loss and grieving in cinema
By: Richard Armstrong
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780786466993
Subjects: Psychic trauma in motion pictures; Grief in motion pictures; Loss (Psychology) in motion pictures; Bereavement; Psychological aspects
Description: "The book deploys the film theory of Gilles Deleuze and Daniel Frampton while Freudian psychoanalysis and present-day grief counselling theory. The book reflects upon the ways in which the very notion of genre has, in the post-classical period, responded to changing exhibition patterns, the rise of domestic spectatorship, and the proliferation of Web-based film literature"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.