Endings in the cinema : thresholds, water and the beach / Michael Walker.

This book offers a new way of thinking about film endings. Whereas existing works on the subject concentrate on narrative resolution, this book explores the way film endings blend together a complex of motifs, tropes and other elements to create the sense of an endingƯ--that is, it looks at 'en...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walker, Michael
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2020.
Subjects:	Motion pictures > History. Boundaries in motion pictures. Water in motion pictures. Beaches in motion pictures. Beaches in motion pictures Boundaries in motion pictures Motion pictures Water in motion pictures History
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Introduction
THRESHOLDS AND BOUNDARIES
Stations
i. The station as stage
ii. Lovers' separations
iii. World War 2
Wartime homecoming
iv. Stations and death
WATER
i. The waterside
Ship and boat departure
ii. On water
iii. In and under water
KEY ENDING TROPES AND MOTIFS
i. Sunsets
ii. Voice-overs
iii. 'Let's go home'
iv. Looking at or addressing the camera
v. Emblematic shots
vi. Theatricality
BEACHES
Introduction
Early History
i. Silent Cinema
ii. The 1930s
iii. World War 2
Concepts and development
i. The Woman on the Beach
1954 and after
ii. Beach holidays
iii. Tabula rasa
iv. Empty beach
v. Renewal
Auteurist inflections
i. La nouvelle vague and after
ii. Beach auteurs: Fellini, Kurys, Ozon, Kitano
Themes and motifs
i. Death
Dying
Suicides
ii. War
iii. Hallucination, breakdown and insanity
iv. The family and childhood
v. Mourning and solitary reflection
vi. Home movies
vii. Fantasy
viii. Apocalypse and post-apocalypse
ix. Paradise and lost paradise
x. Other categories and Conclusion
Appendix: Films with beach endings
Bibliography.

Endings in the cinema : thresholds, water and the beach / Michael Walker.

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