The apocalypse in film [electronic resource] : dystopias, disasters, and other visions about the end of the world / edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Angela Krewani.

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Other Authors: Ritzenhoff, Karen A. (Editor)
Krewani, Angela (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
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The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions About the End of the World
Format: Electronic eBook

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245 0 4 |a The apocalypse in film  |h [electronic resource] :  |b dystopias, disasters, and other visions about the end of the world /  |c edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Angela Krewani. 
246 2 |a The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions About the End of the World 
264 1 |a Lanham :  |b Rowman and Littlefield,  |c [2016] 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
504 |a Includes filmography. 
505 0 |a Introduction / Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Angela Krewani -- THE EARLY DEPICTIONS OF DISASTER. World War One and Hollywood's First Modern Armageddon: Understanding Wartime and Post-Conflict Representations of a Global Cataclysm in Civilization (1916) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) / Clémentine Tholas-Disset -- The end of the world: loss and redemption in Four horsemen of the apocalypse / Karen Randell -- GLOBAL DEMISE AND COLD WAR. "Radiation's rising, but one mustn't grumble too much": nuclear apocalypse played as farce in Richard Lester's The bed-sitting room / Thomas Prasch -- The legacy of Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick, science fiction blockbusters and the future of humanity / Peter Krämer -- "Gentleman, you can't fight in here": gender symbolism and the end of the world in Dr. Strangelove and Melancholia / Catriona Mcavoy -- MELANCHOLIA AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF THE APOCALYSPE. Is there an end to it? fictional shelters and shelter-fiction / Solvejg Nitzke -- Melancholia and the apocalypse within / Pierre Floquet -- Eco apocalypse: environmentalism, political alienation and therapeutic agency / Philip Hammond and Hugh Ortega Breton --POLITICS OF SHOWING THE UNTHINKABLE. Disaster films: the end of the world and the risk society hero / Frederick Wasser -- The (gender) politics of disaster in 2012 / Charles Antoine Courcoux -- Tarkovsky's The sacrifice: a religious humanist apocalypse / Tatjana Ljuji -- Dead narratives: defining humanity through stories / A. Fiona Pearson and Scott Ellis -- MOVING BEYOND THE END OF THE WORLD. Opposing Thatcherism: filmic apocalypse as a political strategy in 1980s Britain / Angela Krewani -- Painting in time: on the use of digital visual effects in Melancholia / Andreas Kirchner -- The corporate and corporeal: min(d)ing the body conscience and consumption in early 21st century Hollywood dystopia / Wendy Sterba. 
650 0 |a Science fiction films  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Apocalypse in motion pictures. 
700 1 |a Ritzenhoff, Karen A.,  |e editor. 
700 1 |a Krewani, Angela,  |e editor. 
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