Gerda Dullaart

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerda Dullaart is involved.

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Dullaart, Gerda 2011 Chapter 11. Mending endings: Power and closure in film plots Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication, Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen (eds.), pp. 245–267 | Article
Closing images of films are used to maintain a status quo. Thus images of a happy ending ‘mend’ our critical experience of the world by washing audiences in the escapist glow of cinema light, hiding the chains with flowers. I Am Legend (2008) is an example of how a happy ending sanitises the cinema… read more
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