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Death in Cinema Video Essay
201211 min 59 secFilm: Documentary
Script: Elysse Leonard
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A video essay on classical and post-classical representations of death in cinema, focusing on Edmund Goulding’s Dark Victory (1939; Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Reagan) and Patrice Chereau’s Son frère (2003; Bruno Todeschini, Eric Caravaca), respectively.
Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > Film and Video Making
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Life and Death
- Media Education > Film and Video Production
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
Credits
- writer
- Elysse Leonard
- editor
- Christopher Heron
- sound recording
- Brian Robertson
- narrator
- John Cohen