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Narrative Mortality : Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas.

What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell shows us in this book about death in narrative cinema since the 1950s. Analyzing the structural importance of death in narrative endings, as well as the thematics of loss and redemption, Russell identifies mortality as a valuable...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russell, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Narrative Mortality; 1. Beyond Pleasure: Lang and Mortification; 2. Wim Wenders: Film as Death at Work; 3. Oshima Nagisa: The Limits of Nationhood; 4. Jean-Luc Godard: Allegory of the Body; 5. American Apocalypticism: The Sight of the Crisis; Conclusion: The Senselessness of Ending; Notes; Bibliography; Index.