Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure and New Wave Cinemas
In these analyses, Russell reveals an uneasy relationship between death and closure, which she traces to anxieties about identity, gender, and national-cultural myths, as well as to the persistence of desire. Drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, she shows us death as a fundamentally allegorical structure in cinema–and as a potential sign of historical difference, with crucial implications for theories of film narrative and spectatorship.
