Mourning Films: A Critical Study of Loss and Grieving in Cinema

by Richard Armstrong

The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolves around bereavement. Identifying the roots of the genre in classical melodrama and horror cinema, and tracing perennial themes and aesthetic devices through to the European and American "intellectual melodramas" of the postwar decades, the book provides a taxonomy of characteristics.

In the course of detailed case studies, the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786466995
• ISBN13: 9780786466993
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher