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Narrative Mortality - Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas (Paperback, New)
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Narrative Mortality - Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas (Paperback, New)
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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. In these analyses, Russell reveals an uneasy
relationship between death and closure, which she traces to
anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, and
also to the persistence of desire. Drawing on the work of Walter
Benjamin, she shows us death as a fundamentally allegorical
structure in cinema - and as a potential sign of historical
difference, with crucial implications for theories of film
narrative and spectatorship. "Narrative Mortality" provides an
insight into the dynamics of postmodern cinema as it emerged from
the modernist preoccupation with existential mortality. By tracing
the role of death from a work that precedes the Brechtian cinema of
the 60s ("Beyond a reasonable doubt") to several that succeed it
("Nashville", "The State of things"), the book expands the
narrative project of new wave cinema and ushers it onto a broad
historical plane.
General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 1994 |
First published: |
December 1994 |
Authors: |
Catherine Russell
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
280 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-2486-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8166-2486-0 |
Barcode: |
9780816624867 |
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