Screening Children In Post Apocalypse Film And Television

Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666918687

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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.

Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739194294

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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.

Author : Tobias Hochscherf,James Leggott,Donald E. Palumbo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786484836

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British Science Fiction Film and Television by Tobias Hochscherf,James Leggott,Donald E. Palumbo Pdf

Written by international experts from a range of disciplines, these essays examine the uniquely British contribution to science fiction film and television. Viewing British SF as a cultural phenomenon that challenges straightforward definitions of genre, nationhood, authorship and media, the editors provide a conceptual introduction placing the essays within their critical context. Essay topics include Hammer science fiction films, the various incarnations of Doctor Who, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and such 21st-century productions as 28 Days Later and Torchwood.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000004837237

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexandra Simon-López,Heidi Yeandle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848882706

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A Critical Approach to the Apocalypse by Alexandra Simon-López,Heidi Yeandle Pdf

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. A Critical Approach to the Apocalypse offers the reader an in-depth view of the portrayal of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios in literature, film and television, art, digital art, history, anthropology, religion and climate change studies.

Author : Sheila C. Bibb,Alexandra Simon-López
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004399440

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Framing the Apocalypse by Sheila C. Bibb,Alexandra Simon-López Pdf

The apocalypse’s triumph is witnessed in the arts, literature, music, film, TV, and digital media thereby enabling us to view the very essence of Apocalypse as a cultural phenomenon.

Author : Vicente Rodríguez Ortega,Rubén Romero Santos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000965421

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Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega,Rubén Romero Santos Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates the national cinematic output within the international arena, understanding film production and reception as continuously changing processes in which a variety of economic, social and cultural factors intervene. The book first analyzes the main horror trends emerging in the early 2000s, then approaches genre hybridization and the rise of new filmmakers since the 2010s with a special focus on gender issues and the reconfiguration of the past, before addressing the impact of streaming services within the Spanish film panorama, from a production and distribution standpoint. This book will be of keen interest to scholars and students in the areas of film studies, media studies, TV studies, horror, Spanish cultural studies and production studies.

Author : Filipa Antunes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476638959

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Children Beware! by Filipa Antunes Pdf

How does a culture respond when the limits of childhood become uncertain? The emergence of pre-adolescence in the 1980s, which is signified by the new PG-13 rating for film, disrupted the established boundaries between childhood and adulthood. The concept of pre-adolescence affected not only America's pillar ideals of family and childhood innocence but also the very foundation of the horror genre's identity, its association with maturity and exclusivity. Cultural disputes over the limits of childhood and horror were explicitly articulated in the children's horror trend (1980-1997), a cluster of child-oriented horror titles in film and other media, which included Gremlins, The Gate, the Goosebumps series, and others. As the first serious analysis of the children's horror trend, with a focus on the significance of ratings, this book provides a complete chart of its development while presenting it as a document of American culture's adaptation to pre-adolescence. Each important children's horror title corresponds to a key moment of ideological negotiation, cultural power struggles, and industrial compromise.

Author : Eve Bennett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501331107

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Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV by Eve Bennett Pdf

In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse. Science fiction and fantasy shows ranging from Firefly to Heroes, from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica to Lost, envisaged scenarios in which world-changing disasters were either threatened or actually took place. During the same period numerous commentators observed that the American media's representation of gender had undergone a marked regression, possibly, it was suggested, as a consequence of the 9/11 attacks and the feelings of weakness and insecurity they engendered in the nation's men. Eve Bennett investigates whether the same impulse to return to traditional images of masculinity and femininity can be found in the contemporary cycle of apocalyptic series, programmes which, like 9/11 itself, present plenty of opportunity for narratives of damsels-in-distress and heroic male rescuers. However, as this book shows, whether such narratives play out in the expected manner is another matter.

Author : John R. Ziegler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319997988

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Queering the Family in The Walking Dead by John R. Ziegler Pdf

This book traces how The Walking Dead franchise narratively, visually, and rhetorically represents transgressions against heteronormativity and the nuclear family. The introduction argues that The Walking Dead reflects cultural anxiety over threats to the family. Chapter 1 examines the destructive competition created by heteronormativity, such as the conflict between Rick and Shane. Chapter 2 focuses on the actual or attempted participation of characters such as Carol and Negan in queer relationships. Chapter 3 interprets zombies as queer antagonists to heteronormativity, while Chapter 4 explores the incorporation of zombies into the lives of characters such as the Governor and the Whisperers. The conclusion asserts that The Walking Dead presents both queer alternatives to and damaging contradictions within the traditional heterosexual family model, helping to question this model and to consider the struggle of queer American families. Overall, this study holds special interest for students and scholars of queerness, zombies, and the family.

Author : Charles P. Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313016783

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A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema by Charles P. Mitchell Pdf

This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre. Apocalyptic films are those that depict, on screen as part of the story, an event threatening the extinction of mankind. A brief overview identifies seven major categories of apocalyptic films: the religious or supernatural, celestial collision, solar or orbital disruption, nuclear war and radioactive fallout, germ warfare or pestilence, alien device or invasion, and scientific miscalculation. Alphabetically arranged entries rate the films and provide production information, an annotated cast listing, a synopsis of the film, a critique, and representative quotes. Film scholars and those with a special interest in apocalyptic cinema will appreciate the overview and detailed analysis of the films. Appendices provide additional examples of apocalyptic movies excluded from the main text, a sampling of post-apocalyptic cinema which is distinct from the apocalyptic genre and examples of apocalyptic television. Illustrations are included.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015052099390

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Screen International Film and TV Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oliver Gruner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137496331

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Screening the Sixties by Oliver Gruner Pdf

This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and ‘remembered’ the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Oliver Gruner explores the ways in which films have engaged with broad debates on America’s recent past. Drawing on extensive archival research, he traces production history and script development, showing how a group of politically engaged filmmakers sought to offer resonant contributions to public memory. Situating Hollywood within a wider series of debates taking place in the US public sphere, Screening the Sixties offers a rigorous and innovative study of cinema’s engagement with this most contested of epochs.

Author : Jonathan Bignell
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8189833162

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Postmodern Media Culture by Jonathan Bignell Pdf

The book deals with film, television, information technology, consumer products and popular literature, and assesses challenges to conceptions of the postmodern based on gender, race and religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861016

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Revelation by Anonim Pdf

The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.