Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema

✍ Scribed by Boaz Hagin (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 211
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Meaning of Death in Classical Hollywood....Pages 1-10
Two Platos: Death, Truth, and Knowledge....Pages 11-25
Embodying the Past....Pages 26-44
Melodrama and the Shaping of Desires to Come....Pages 45-64
Cults of the Dead and Powers of the False....Pages 66-85
A Perpetual Present: Death and the War Film....Pages 86-106
Conclusions: The Ends of Classical Death....Pages 107-150
Back Matter....Pages 151-201

✦ Subjects

Film History; Philosophy, general; Film and Television Studies; Modern Philosophy; Poststructuralism; Intellectual Studies

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