Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas

by Catherine Russell

Analyzes New Wave cinema from a postmodern perspective.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816624860
• ISBN13: 9780816624867
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"