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Love in the Afterlife - Underground Religion at the Movies (Hardcover)
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Love in the Afterlife - Underground Religion at the Movies (Hardcover)
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This is a definitive study of films that have been built around the
themes of love, death, and the afterlife-films about lovers who
meet again (and love again) in heaven, via reincarnation, or
through other kinds of after-death encounters. Far more than books
about mere ghosts in the movies or religion in movies, Love in the
Afterlife presents a complex but highly distinctive and unique
pattern-the love-death-afterlife pattern-as it was handed down by
the ancient Egyptians and Greeks (in the Isis and Orpheus myths,
for example), developed by Freud and his followers in the duality
of "Eros and Thanatos," and then featured in popular movies from
the 1920s to the recent past. Among its other qualities, Love in
the Afterlife may encourage readers to look at movies differently
and reflect upon the possibility that other patterns in cinema may
have gone undetected for years. Furthermore, this book will show
how the love-death-afterlife theme found its way into all sorts of
different film types: melodramas, comedies, war films, horror
films, film noir, and other genres. The book will be well
illustrated and quotations from film reviews will enliven its
pages. A long appendix gives production data on almost sixty
individual films.
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