Love, Mortality and the Moving Image

EMMA WILSON Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She is Course Director of the MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures. Her recent books include Cinema's Missing Children (2003), Alain Resnais (2006) and Atom Egoyan (2009).

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Love Mother Child Coma Pietà Touch Home Conclusion Works Cited Moving Image Artworks Index

“This physically lovely book, packed with details,quotes and new concepts, contains an impressive reference list, a full index,informative endnotes and a comprehensive list of moving image artworks, alldemonstrating the extensive research accomplished by Wilson. … Through herdetailed, gentle and loving linguistic handling of the work of respectedfilmmakers and artists … Wilson has provided us with a book overflowing withnew concepts on how to consider death, dying and the dead body – with love.” (KathrynBeattie, Mortality, Vol. 20 (2), May 2015)'Emma Wilson has made an incisive contribution in the fast-growing field of studies of the image and mortality. Sensitive, thoughtful and finely written, this is a compelling and moving account of our relationship to death through photography and film.'- Chris Townsend, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK