Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema
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Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema

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Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema

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Boaz Hagin carries out aphilosophical examination of the issue of death as it is represented and problematized in Hollywood cinema of the classical era (1920s-1950s) and in later mainstream films, looking atfour major genres: the Western, the gangster film, melodrama and the war film.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
9780230275072
Topic
Medien & darstellende Kunst
Subtopic
Filmgeschichte & Filmkritik

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1 The Meaning of Death in Classical Hollywood
  5. 2 Two Platos: Death, Truth, and Knowledge
  6. 3 Embodying the Past
  7. 4 Melodrama and the Shaping of Desires to Come
  8. 5 Cults of the Dead and Powers of the False
  9. 6 A Perpetual Present: Death and the War Film
  10. 7 Conclusions: The Ends of Classical Death
  11. Notes
  12. Index