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Narrative mortality : death, closure, and new wave cinemas

In these analyses of 20th century cinema , Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which she traces to anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, and also to the persistence of desire.
Print Book, English, ©1995
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©1995
Aufsatzsammlung
vii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780816624850, 9780816624867, 0816624852, 0816624860
30472992
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