Download or read book Death in Classic and Contemporary Film written by D. Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema.