{"product_id":"mourning-films-richard-armstrong-9780786466993","title":"Mourning Films: A Critical Study of Loss and Grieving in Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the course of detailed case studies, the book deploys the film theory of Gilles Deleuze and Daniel Frampton while making use of Freudian psychoanalysis and present-day grief counseling theory. In making its case for the new genre, the book reflects upon the ways in which the very notion of genre has, in the post-classical period, responded to changing exhibition patterns, the rise of domestic spectatorship and the proliferation of Web-based film literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Armstrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786466995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786466993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Richard Armstrong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930682409215,"sku":"9780786466993","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57a0be67-1d96-4393-b53f-a43be9ddc59e.jpg?v=1766343538","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mourning-films-richard-armstrong-9780786466993","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}