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Apocalypse in motion pictures. --- Science fiction films --- History and criticism.
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"Movie audiences know exactly how the world will end because popular cinema has never stopped rehearsing the apocalypse. In this clear, concise account, Stephen Prince illuminates the appeal of apocalypse cinema, its roots in literary and religious tradition, its presence throughout cinema history, and the existential fears and anxieties that motivate it. In four elegant chapters, Prince examines the key threats to human existence that bring about world's end - collisions with giant asteroids, invasions by planet-devouring aliens, nuclear war, global warming and deadly pandemics. Touching on films ranging from The End of the World (1916), The Rapture (1991), Signs (2002), Armageddon (1998), Deep Impact (1998), Melancholia (2011), These Final Hours (2015), The War of the Worlds (1953), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Independence Day (1996), Annihilation (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and many more, Apocalypse Cinema shows how apocalypse movies explore fundamental questions of existence that never go out of fashion"--
Apocalypse in motion pictures. --- Apocalyptic films --- History and criticism. --- Film
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Omniprésentes, les fictions d'apocalypse – littéraires, cinématographiques, télévisuelles – imprègnent plus que jamais les tissus profonds de nos imaginaires. Apparues avec la Révolution industrielle, elles accompagnent les désillusions politiques des XIXe, XXe et XXIe siècles. Elles prennent racine dans un désespoir issu d'abord de l'échec de la Révolution française, puis d'une critique de l'idéologie du progrès. Bien avant qu'on forge les concepts d'anthropocène et de capitalocène, elles ont exprimé la prise de conscience de l'empreinte du capital sur la planète. Ainsi, contrairement à ce qu'on pourrait croire, elles ne sont pas nihilistes. Figurer la fin du monde, c'est opposer au présentisme et au fatalisme contemporains une autre conception du temps et une autre idée de la lutte. C'est chercher à faire émerger un horizon encore invisible, une promesse ouverte, indéterminée et en tant que telle nécessaire à l'invention politique : l'utopie.
Apocalypse in motion pictures. --- Apocalyptic literature --- History and criticism.
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Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. Theories abounded in an attempt to prepare for calamity and plan for the future. Worldwide concern regarding a twenty-first century apocalypse, related to the 2012 Mayan Apocalyptic prediction, sparked renewed interest. Even though the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope. The majority of the papers included in Apocalyptic Projections were p...
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La bombe d'Hiroshima, premier engin atomique lancé sur une population civile, n'a pas seulement marqué à jamais la psyché japonaise : elle a aussi reconfiguré la flèche du temps pour l'ensemble de notre monde. C'est à l'exploration de cette ombre historique, projetée sur le plus commercial des médiums artistiques, le manga, qu'invite Pierre Pigot : comment des mangakas comme Miyazaki, Matsumoto ou Nakazawa ont forgé une esthétique capable de donner une apparence aux lourds fantômes de l'histoire ; comment, du Voyage de Ryû à L'École emportée, et de Princesse Mononoké à Albator, les mangas et dessins-animés ont exploré ces secrets de l'histoire humaine et ces hantises de la catastrophe, qui peuplent les coulisses de l'art depuis soixante ans ; comment, enfin, un manga aussi populaire aujourd'hui que One Piece dissimule au cœur de ses milliers de pages une idée secrète capable de nous donner les clés pour lutter contre cette prégnance de l'apocalypse. Apocalypse manga – ou le manga enfin sauvé de sa singularité orientale, et rendu aux mains de ses lecteurs.
Animated films --- Apocalypse in literature. --- Apocalypse in motion pictures. --- History and criticism.
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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.--
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Apocalypse in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Postmodernism --- Social aspects --- Social aspects
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"This volume is a resource for students of all levels who are interested in learning more about apocalyptic and dystopian narratives and the complex ways that they reflect the cultural conflicts, fears, and anxieties of the societies in which they were created and serve to offer critiques and responses to those same phenomena"-- ǂc Provided by publisher.
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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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