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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Catherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 critical tool for understanding the cinema of the second half of the twentieth century. Her work includes close textual readings of films by Fritz Lang, Wim Wenders, Oshima Nagisa, Jean-Luc Godard, and Robert Altman, among others.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780816686087