AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Narrative Mortality11Beyond Pleasure: Lang and Mortification312Wim Wenders: Film as Death at Work673Oshima Nagisa: The Limits of Nationhood1054Jean-Luc Godard: Allegory of the Body1375American Apocalypticism: The Sight of the Crisis173Conclusion: The Senselessness of Ending209Notes227Bibliography253Index263