Death In Classic And Contemporary Film Fade To Black
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781137276889
Description: 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.