Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1978819846
Apocalypse Cinema
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Apocalypse Cinema
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Apocalypse-Cinema
Peter Szendy
Author : Peter Szendy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823264827
Apocalypse-Cinema by Peter Szendy Pdf
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.
Apocalypse Cinema
Stephen Prince
Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978819870
Apocalypse Cinema by Stephen Prince Pdf
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.
Coppola's Monster Film
Steven Travers
Author : Steven Travers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476664255
Coppola's Monster Film by Steven Travers Pdf
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.
Approaching the End
Peter Labuza
Author : Peter Labuza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Apocalypse in motion pictures
ISBN : 1941629008
Approaching the End by Peter Labuza Pdf
This innovative genre study looks at film noir from a new light.
Visions of Paradise
Wheeler W. Dixon
Author : Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813537986
Visions of Paradise by Wheeler W. Dixon Pdf
Illustrated throughout with rare stills, and organized so as to provide historical context, this book surveys an array of films that have offered us glimpses of a life that is meaningful, free from strife, devoid of pain and privation, and full of harmony in every sense.
Apocalypse Then
Mike Bogue
Author : Mike Bogue
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476668413
Apocalypse Then by Mike Bogue Pdf
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.
Apocalyptic Dread
Kirsten Moana Thompson
Author : Kirsten Moana Thompson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791480335
Apocalyptic Dread by Kirsten Moana Thompson Pdf
In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings of such films as Cape Fear, Candyman, Dolores Claiborne, Se7en, Signs, and War of the Worlds, Thompson argues that a longstanding American apocalyptic tradition permeates our popular culture, spreading from science-fiction and disaster films into horror, crime, and melodrama. Drawing upon Kierkegaard's notion of dread—that is, a fundamental anxiety and ambivalence about existential choice and the future—Thompson suggests that the apocalyptic dread revealed in these films, and its guiding tropes of violence, retribution, and renewal, also reveal deep-seated anxieties about historical fragmentation and change, anxieties that are in turn displaced onto each film's particular "monster," whether human, demonic, or eschatological.
Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television
Debbie Olson
Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666918687
Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television by Debbie Olson Pdf
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.
Apocalypse Movies
Kim Newman
Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0312253699
Apocalypse Movies by Kim Newman Pdf
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.
The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema
Debbie Olson
Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739194294
The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema by Debbie Olson Pdf
The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often functions to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order. This collection features critical articles that explore the role of the child character in post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.
The Apocalypse in Film
Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Angela Krewani
Author : Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Angela Krewani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442260290
The Apocalypse in Film by Karen A. Ritzenhoff,Angela Krewani Pdf
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.
Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film
Roslyn Weaver
Author : Roslyn Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786484652
Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film by Roslyn Weaver Pdf
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.
The Apocalypse Now Book
Peter Cowie
Author : Peter Cowie
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0306810468
The Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie Pdf
A cinematic legend: The making of Francis Ford Coppola's epic about Vietnam and the folly of war, based on unprecedented access to Coppola's private archives
Visions of the Apocalypse
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850483
Visions of the Apocalypse by Wheeler Winston Dixon Pdf
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.
