Death in Classic and Contemporary Film : Fade to Black, Hardcover by Sullivan, Daniel (EDT); Greenberg, Jeff (EDT), ISBN 1137276886, ISBN-13 9781137276889, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema.