Love, Mortality and the Moving Image

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"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, all demonstrating the extensive research accomplished by Wilson. . Through her detailed, gentle and loving linguistic handling of the work of respected filmmakers and artists . Wilson has provided us with a book overflowing with new concepts on how to consider death, dying and the dead body - with love." (Kathryn Beattie, 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