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ISBN 13 : 9781978819849
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Book Rating : 4.8/5 (198 download)
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Author : Peter Szendy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823264823
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Apocalypse-Cinema written by Peter Szendy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own limit. Apocalypse-cinema is, at the same time and with the same double blow, the end of the world and the end of the film. It is the consummation and the (self-)consumption of cinema, in the form of an acinema that Lyotard evoked as the nihilistic horizon of filmic economy. The innumerable countdowns, dazzling radiations, freeze-overs, and seismic cracks and crevices are but other names and pretexts for staging film itself, with its economy of time and its rewinds, its overexposed images and fades to white, its freeze-frames and digital touch-ups. The apocalyptic genre is not just one genre among others: It plays with the very conditions of possibility of cinema. And it bears witness to the fact that, every time, in each and every film, what Jean-Luc Nancy called the cine-world is exposed on the verge of disappearing. In a Postface specially written for the English edition, Szendy extends his argument into a debate with speculative materialism. Apocalypse-cinema, he argues, announces itself as cinders that question the “ultratestimonial” structure of the filmic gaze. The cine-eye, he argues, eludes the correlationism and anthropomorphic structure that speculative materialists have placed under critique, allowing only the ashes it bears to be heard.
Author : Kirsten Moana Thompson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148033X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Apocalyptic Dread written by Kirsten Moana Thompson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema.
Author : Peter Labuza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941629000
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Approaching the End written by Peter Labuza and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative genre study looks at film noir from a new light.
Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978819870
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Apocalypse Cinema written by Stephen Prince and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some films imagine a future where humanity is wiped out entirely, while others envision humans as an endangered species, enslaved by alien invaders or hunted by zombie hordes. This book provides a lively overview of apocalypse cinema, including alien invasions, nuclear annihilation, asteroid collisions, climate change, and terrifying plagues. Covering pivotal films from the silent era to the present day, including Metropolis, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dr. Strangelove, Contagion, and Avengers: Endgame, Stephen Prince explores how these dark visions are rooted in religious and prophetic traditions, and he considers how our love for apocalypse cinema is tied to fundamental existential questions and anxieties that never go out of fashion.
Author : Mike Bogue
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476668418
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Apocalypse Then written by Mike Bogue and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray the nuclear threat differently on film. American science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s generally proclaim that it is possible to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Japanese films of the same period assert that once freed the nuclear genie can never again be imprisoned. This book examines genre films from the two countries released between 1951 and 1967--including Godzilla (1954), The Mysterians (1957), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), On the Beach (1959), The Last War (1961) and Dr. Strangelove (1964)--to show the view from both sides of the Pacific.
Author : Steven Travers
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476664250
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Coppola's Monster Film written by Steven Travers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. He scrapped much of the original script, a jingoistic narrative of U.S. Special Forces winning an unwinnable war. Harvey Keitel, originally cast in the lead role, was fired and replaced by Martin Sheen, who had a heart attack. An overweight Marlon Brando, paid a huge salary, did more philosophizing than acting. It rained almost every day and a hurricane wiped out the set. The Philippine government promised the use of helicopters but diverted them at the last minute to fight communist and Muslim separatists. Coppola filmed for four years with no ending in the script. The shoot threatened to be the biggest disaster in movie history. Providing a detailed snapshot of American cinema during the Vietnam War, this book tells the story of how Apocalypse Now became one of the great films of all time.
Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666918687
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Screening Children in Post-Apocalypse Film and Television written by Debbie Olson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the child's role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the "rightness" of past systems of social order.
Author : Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442260297
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Apocalypse in Film written by Karen A. Ritzenhoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future. The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World offers an overview of Armageddon in film from the silent era to the present. This collection of essays discusses how such films reflect social anxieties—ones that are linked to economic, ecological, and cultural factors. Featuring a broad spectrum of international scholars specializing in different historical genres and methodologies, these essays look at a number of films, including the silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Mayan calendar disaster epic, 2012, and in particular, Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, the focus of several essays. As some filmmakers translate the anxiety about a changing global climate and geo-political relations into visions of the apocalypse, others articulate worries about the planet’s future by depicting chemical warfare, environmental disasters, or human made destruction. This book analyzes the emergence of apocalyptic and dystopic narratives and explores the political and social situations on which these films are based. Contributing to the dialogue on dystopic culture in war and peace, The Apocalypse in Film will be of interest to scholars in film and media studies, border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science.
Author : Chase Pielak
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627924
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Living with Zombies written by Chase Pielak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--governmental control, lawlessness, even interpersonal relationships--exposing our weaknesses and demanding a response (or safeguard), even as we imagine ever more horrifying versions of post-apocalyptic life. This critical study traces a shift in narrative focus in portrayals of the zombie apocalypse, as the living move from surviving hypothetical destruction toward reintegration and learning to live with the undead.
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312253691
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Apocalypse Movies written by Kim Newman and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the giant ants of "Them!" to the Martians of "War of the Worlds", the asteroids of "Armageddon" and Dr. Strangelove's beloved bomb (Hi there!), the end of the world has been a mainstay of the movies.Kim Newman provides the ultimate look at 20th-century paranoid cinema. Examining our obsessions with Doomsday, Newman ranges from the patriotism of World War II through the frightened '50s and the anti-nuke films of the '60s and '70s, right up to the Bomb's role in recent blockbusters. Such diverse films as "Deep Impact", "The War Game", "Teenage Caveman",and "Independence Day" are covered with wit and insight.
Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739194291
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema written by Debbie Olson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores and interrogates the complex role of the child character in the dystopian landscape of post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.
Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850484
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Visions of the Apocalypse written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, Invasion U.S.A., The Last War, Tidal Wave, The Bed Sitting Room, The Last Days of Man on Earth and numerous others. It also considers the ways in which contemporary cinema has become increasingly hyper-conglomerised, leading to films with ever-higher budgets and fewer creative risks. Along the way, the author discusses such topics as the death of film itself, to be replaced by digital video; the political and social tensions that have made these visions of infinite destruction so appealing to the public; and the new wave of Hollywood war films, coupled with escapist comedies, in the post-9/11 era. Encompassing both questions of physical and filmic mortality Visions of the Apocalypse is a meditation on the questions of time, memory and the cinema's seemingly unending appetite for spectacles of destruction.
Author : Roslyn Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786484659
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film written by Roslyn Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has been a frequent choice of location for narratives about the end of the world in science fiction and speculative works, ranging from pre-colonial apocalyptic maps to key literary works from the last fifty years. This critical work explores the role of Australia in both apocalyptic literature and film. Works and genres covered include Nevil Shute’s popular novel On the Beach, Mad Max, children’s literature, Indigenous writing, and cyberpunk. The text examines ways in which apocalypse is used to undermine complacency, foretell environmental disasters, critique colonization, and to serve as a means of protest for minority groups. Australian apocalypse imagines Australia at the ends of the world, geographically and psychologically, but also proposes spaces of hope for the future.
Author : Robert C. O'Brien
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665911646
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (659 download)
Download or read book Z for Zachariah written by Robert C. O'Brien and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this post-apocalyptic novel from Newbery Medal–winning author Robert C. O’Brien, a teen girl struggling to survive in the wake of unimaginable disaster comes across another survivor. Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smoke from a distant campfire shatters Ann’s solitude. Someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Can he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.
Author : S. Trimble
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813593662
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Undead Ends written by S. Trimble and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undead Ends is about how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. This book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle. It asks what, exactly, is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take center stage, and why? And how do these films, sometimes in spite of themselves, make room to dream of new beginnings that don’t just reboot the world we know? Trimble argues that contemporary apocalypse films aren’t so much envisioning The End of the world as the end of a particular world; not The End of humanness but, rather, the end of Man. Through readings of The Road, I Am Legend, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Children of Men, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, this book demonstrates that popular stories of apocalypse can trouble, rather than reproduce, Man’s story of humanness. With some creative re-reading, they can even unfold towards unexpected futures. Mainstream apocalypse films are, in short, an occasion to imagine a world After Man.
Author : Ian Olney
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081357949X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Zombie Cinema written by Ian Olney and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s official: the zombie apocalypse is here. The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they have never been as ubiquitous or as widely-embraced as they are today. Zombie Cinema is a lively and accessible introduction to this massively popular genre. Presenting a historical overview of zombie appearances in cinema and on television, Ian Olney also considers why, more than any other horror movie monster, zombies have captured the imagination of twenty-first-century audiences. Surveying the landmarks of zombie film and TV, from White Zombie to The Walking Dead, the book also offers unique insight into why zombies have gone global, spreading well beyond the borders of American and European cinema to turn up in films from countries as far-flung as Cuba, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Nigeria. Both fun and thought-provoking, Zombie Cinema will give readers a new perspective on our ravenous hunger for the living dead.
