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Introduction: when the lights go down / Daniel Sullivan and Jeff Greenberg Terror management theory and film. A terror management analysis of films from four genres: The matrix, Life is beautiful, Iron Man 2, and Ikiru / Jeff Greenberg and Alisabeth Ayars The end is near: mortality salience in Apocalyptic films / Joel D. Lieberman and Mark Fergus Aspects of death denial in individual films and genres. Little murders: cultural animals in an existential age / Sheldon Solomon and Mark J. Landau Icons of stone and steel: death, cinema, and the future of emotion / Jennifer L. McMahon Consumed in the act: Grizzly man and Frankenstein / Kirby Farrell Black swan/white swan: on female objectification, creatureliness, and death denial / Jamie L. Goldenberg Death, wealth, and guilt: an analysis of There will be blood? / Daniel Sullivan The birth and death of the superhero film / Sander L. Koole, Daniel Fockenberg, Mattie Tops, and Iris K. Schneider Directors engaging with death. Bergman and the switching off of lights / Peter Cowie Death in the films of Stanley Kubrick / Susan White Haneke's Amour and the ethics of dying / Asbjorn Gronstad The prospect of transcendence Visions of death: Native American cinema and the transformative power of death / Jennifer L. McMahon From despair and fanaticism to awe: a post-traumatic growth perspective on cinematic horror / Kirk J. Schneider Conclusion: cinematic death benefits / Daniel Sullivan and Jeff Greenberg. |