The following alphabetical list comprises key works that explore the intersections of film, philosophy, and death. These texts include foundational philosophical inquiries, film analysis, and cultural perspectives on mortality and its representation.

A

• Aaron, Michele. 2015. Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  
• Ariès, Philippe. 1974. Western Attitudes towards Death. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  

B

• Barthes, Roland. 1980. Camera Lucida. New York: Vintage.
  
• Baudrillard, Jean. 2017. Symbolic Exchange and Death [L'Échange Symbolique et la Mort], trans. Iain Hamilton Grant. Los Angeles-London-New Delhi-Singapore-Washington DC-Melbourne: Sage.
  
• Bazin, André. 1967. What Is Cinema? Vol.1. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  
• Becker, Ernest. 1973/1997. The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press Paperbacks.
  
• Benjamin, Walter. 1931/1999. “Little History of Photography.” In Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume II, 1927–1934, 507–30. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  
• Bennett-Carpenter, Benjamin. 2018. Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience. Leiden: Brill.
  
• Bergson, Henri. 1907/1922. Creative Evolution. London: Macmillan.
  
• Borg, Ruben. Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite. Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi.
  
• Bradley, Ben, Fred Feldman, and Jens Johansson (eds.). 2012. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  
• Britt, Thomas. 2020. “Death in Modern Film.” In The Routledge History of Death since 1800, ed. Peter N. Stearns, 423-440. New York: Routledge.
• Bronfen, Elisabeth. 1992. Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic. Manchester University Press.
  

C

• Cavell, Stanley. 1979. The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  
• Cavell, Stanley. 1981. Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  
• Cavell, Stanley. 1996. Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
  
• Cavell, Stanley. 2004. Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  
• Cherchi Usai, Paolo. 2001. The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age. London: British Film Institute.
  
• Cline, Alex. 2011. “Statues of Commodus - Death and Simulation in the Work of Jean Baudrillard.” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 8(2). Online:
  
• Colombat, André-Pierre. 1996. “November 4, 1995: Deleuze’s Death as an Event.” Man and World 29: 235-249.
  

D

• Daney, Serge. 1992/2007. “The Tracking Shot in Kapo.” In Postcards from the Cinema, 17-35. Oxford: Berg.
  
• Deleuze, Gilles. 1983/2009. Cinema 1. London: Continuum.
  
• Deleuze, Gilles. 1985/2008. Cinema 2. London: Continuum.
  
• Deleuze, Gilles. 1995. Negotiations. New York: Columbia University Press.
  
• Deleuze, Gilles and F. Guattari. 1991/1994. What is Philosophy? New York: Columbia University Press.
  
• Deleuze, G., and F. Guattari.  1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Derrida, Jacques. 1994. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International. New York: Routledge.

• Derrida, Jacques. 1995. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

• Derrida, Jacques with A. de Baecque and T. Jousse. 2015. “Cinema and Its Ghosts: An Interview with Jacques Derrida,” Discourse 37 (1-2), 22-39.

• Derrida, Jacques. 2020. Life Death. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  

F

• Falzon, Christopher. 2002. Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy. London: Routledge.
  
• Faure, Elie. 1937/1964. Fonction du cinéma: de la cinéplastique à son destin social. Paris: Gonthier.
  
• Freud, Sigmund. 1920/2003. Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings. London: Penguin.
  

G

• Gorky, Maxim. 1960. “The Kingdom of Shadows,” in J. Leyda (ed), Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. London: Unwin, 407-409.

H

• Han, Byung-Chul. 2002. Tod und Alterität. München: Brill/Wilhelm Fink.

• Han, Byung-Chul. 2021. Capitalism and the Death Drive. Cambridge: Polity Press.

• Heidegger, Martin. 1927/2000. Being and Time. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
  

J

• Jankélévitch, Vladimir. 1966/2017. La mort. Paris: Flammarion.
  

L

• Lacan, Jacques. 1962/2004. Séminaire X: Angoisse. Paris: Seuil.
  
• Lamarre, T. 2018. The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, And Game Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  
• Lévinas, Emmanuel. 1993/2000. God, Death and Time. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Lyons, Siobhan. 2018. Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics. Singapore: Springer Singapore.
  

M

• Malabou, Catherine. 2001. “History and the Process of Mourning in Hegel and Freud.” Radical Philosophy 106 (March/April): 15-20.
  
• McMahon, Laura. 2019. Animal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  
• Montaigne, Michel. 1588/2003. “That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die.” In The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters. London: Everyman’s Library.
  
• Mulvey, Laura. 2006. Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image. London: Reaktion Books.
  

P

• Plato. 1997. “Phaedo.” In Plato: Complete Works, edited by J. M. Cooper. Indianapolis: Hackett.
  

R

• Russell, Catherine. 1995. Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure, and New Wave Cinemas. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  

S

• Schopenhauer, Arthur. 1844/1966. The World as Will and Representation, vol.2. New York: Dover.
  
• Simmel, Georg. 2010. “Death and Immortality.” In The View of Life [Lebensanschauung], trans. John Andrews & Donald Levine, 63-97. Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press.

• Sisto, Davide. 2020. Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture. MIT Press.
  

T

• Ten Brink, Joram and Joshua Oppenheimer (eds.). 2012. Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory and the Performance of Violence. London-New York: Wallflower Press.
  

V

• Viveiros de Castro, E. 2009. Métaphysiques Cannibales. Paris: PUF.
  

W

• Wilson, Emma. 2012. Love, Mortality, and the Moving Image. London: Palgrave.
  
• Worley, Taylor. 2020. Memento Mori in Contemporary Art: Theologies of Lament and Hope. New York: Routledge.