Death in classical Hollywood cinema
By: Boaz Hagin.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780230236226
Subjects: Death in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The meaning of death in classical Hollywood. Practicing film theory; title: Death on the line; title: A politics of death; title: Two Platos : death, truth, and knowledge. A rehearsal for death; title: Access, authority, and tests; title: The superfluity of a truth-revealing death; title: The misery of truth; title: Embodying the past. The killability test; title: A logic of singular evil; title: Melodrama and the shaping of desires to come. Sublating death; title: Obstacles and goals; title: Desiring death; title: Impossible legacies; title: Cults of the dead and powers of the false. Retaining the dead; title: Westerns and falsehoods; title: The forming of a cult; title: A brand that sticks; title: A perpetual present : death and the war film. An absurd death; title: The Hollywood war machine; title: The exception of state; title: Conclusions : the ends of classical death. Billy Wilder and Hollywood's "Auschwitz"; title: The vicissitudes of the killability test; title: The virtual Frankenstein.