Apocalypse-cinema : 2012 and other ends of the world /

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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 'Terminator'. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Szendy, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Apocalypse in motion pictures.
Science fiction films > History and criticism.
Fin du monde au cinéma.
Films de science-fiction > Histoire et critique.
PHILOSOPHY > Criticism.
Apocalypse in motion pictures
Science fiction films
Apocalypse.
Countdown.
Speculative Realism.
cineworld.
deconstruction.
film.
nihilism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front ; CONTENTS; FOREWORD: One Sun Too Many; Melancholia, or The After-All; The Last Man on Earth, or Filmas Countdown; Cloverfield, or The Holocaustof the Date; Terminator, or The Arche- Traveling Shot; 2012, or Pyrotechnics; A.I., or The Freeze; Pause, for Inventory (the "Apo"); Watchmen, or The Layering of the Cineworld; Sunshine, or The Black-and-White Radiography; Blade Runner, or The Interworlds; Twelve Monkeys, or The Pipes of the Apocalypse; The Road, or The Language of a Drowned Era; The Blob, or The Bubble; POSTFACE Il n'y a pas de hors-fi lm, or Cinema and Its Cinders.

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