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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.

Apocalypse in motion pictures. --- Science fiction films --- Disaster films --- Horror films --- Catastrophe films --- Disaster movies --- Motion pictures --- Apocalypse as a theme in motion pictures --- History and criticism.

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Throughout its history, animation has been fundamentally shaped by its application to promotion and marketing, with animation playing a vital role in advertising history. In individual case study chapters this book addresses, among others, the role of promotion and advertising for anime, Disney, MTV, Lotte Reiniger, Pixar and George Pal, and highlights American, Indian, Japanese, and European examples. This collection reviews the history of famous animation studios and artists, and rediscovers overlooked ones. It situates animated advertising within the context of a diverse intermedial and multi-platform media environment, influenced by print, radio and digital practices, and expanding beyond cinema and television screens into the workplace, theme park, trade expo and urban environment. It reveals the part that animation has played in shaping our consumption of particular brands and commodities, and assesses the ways in which animated advertising has both changed and been changed by the technologies and media that supported it, including digital production and distribution in the present day. Challenging the traditional privileging of art or entertainment over commercial animation, Animation and Advertising establishes a new and rich field of research, and raises many new questions concerning particular animation and media histories, and our methods for researching them.

Advertising. --- Animated films. --- Animated cartoons (Motion pictures) --- Animated videos --- Cartoons, Animated (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture cartoons --- Moving-picture cartoons --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Motion pictures --- Abstract films --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Animation cels --- Ads --- Advertisements --- Advertising --- Advertising, Consumer --- Advertising, Retail --- Advertising, Store --- Commercial speech --- Consumer advertising --- Retail advertising --- Speech, Commercial --- Store advertising --- Business --- Communication in marketing --- Industrial publicity --- Retail trade --- Advertisers --- Branding (Marketing) --- Propaganda --- Public relations --- Publicity --- Sales promotion --- Selling --- Marketing. --- Animation. --- Consumer goods --- Domestic marketing --- Retail marketing --- Industrial management --- Aftermarkets --- Marketing

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Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled "Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film," scholarly and archival interest in colour as a crucial aspect of film form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In the spirit of the workshop, this anthology brings together international experts to explore a diverse range of themes that they hope will inspire the next twenty years of research on colour in silent film. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.

Film --- Color motion pictures --- Silent films --- Color motion pictures. --- Silent films. --- Farbe --- Farbfilm --- Stummfilm --- History and criticism. --- Color moving-pictures --- Colored motion pictures --- Technicolor pictures --- Motion pictures --- Silent film, colour, cinema, archive, intermediality.