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Informationen zum Autor Richard Striner is professor of history at Washington College. Klappentext This book is a definitive study of love-death-afterlife movies from the 1920s to the present. Scholars of film will appreciate this contribution to the intellectual history of cinema, and cultural critics will enjoy its presentation of the ways in which democracies can use entertainment to prompt unorthodox speculation in matters of the spirit. Zusammenfassung This book is a definitive study of love-death-afterlife movies from the 1920s to the present. Scholars of film will appreciate this contribution to the intellectual history of cinema! and cultural critics will enjoy its presentation of the ways in which democracies can use entertainment to prompt unorthodox speculation in matters of the spirit. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceChapter 1: Philosophic and Literary Sources Chapter 2: The Cultural Milieu after World War I and the Seminal Plays Chapter 3: The "Mythical Method" as Applied to the Plot Template of Supernatural Romance Chapter 4: Berkeley Square and the Philosophic Problem of Time Chapter 5: The "Second Wave" of Plays and the Milieu of the Second World War Chapter 6: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and the Applications of Theology in Supernatural Romance Chapter 7: The Tradition Evolves Conclusion: Underground Religion Appendix One: Case Study: The Making of What Dreams May Come Appendix Two: Other Patters in Film that Justify Additional Study Appendix Three: Production Data for Supernatural Romances and Related Films Select Bibliography About the Author
