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pro vyhledávání: '"Mortality in motion pictures"'
Autor:
C. Scott Combs
The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narra
Autor:
Richard F. Calichman
The Coming Death explores the question of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. By exposing the specific fields of Japanology and Sinology to the more general discourse of thanatology, Richard Calichman aims to
The phenomenon of so-called'snuff movies'(films that allegedly document real acts of murder, specifically designed to'entertain'and sexually arouse the spectator) represents a fascinating socio-cultural paradox. At once unproven, yet accepted by many
Autor:
D. Sullivan, J. Greenberg
Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the