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The apocalypse in film : dystopias, disasters, and other visions about the end of the world
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ISBN: 1442260270 9781442260276 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield,

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A guide to apocalyptic cinema
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ISBN: 0313315272 Year: 2001 Publisher: Westport (Conn.) : Greenwood press,

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Apocalypse cinema
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ISBN: 9781978819849 9781978819856 9781978819863 9781978819870 9781978819887 Year: 2021 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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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"--


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Fabuler la fin du monde : La puissance critique des fictions d'apocalypse
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ISBN: 2348046571 2348046350 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris (9bis, rue Abel Hovelacque 75013) : La Découverte,

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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.


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Apocalyptic projections : a study of past predictions, current trends and future intimations as related to film and literature
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ISBN: 9781443878807 1443878804 9781443872379 1443872377 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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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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Apocalypse manga
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ISBN: 2130810004 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : Presses Universitaires de France,

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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.


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Framing the apocalypse : visions of the end-of-times
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ISBN: 9004399445 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press,

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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.--

Crisis cinema : the apocalyptic idea in postmodern narrative film
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ISBN: 0944624197 Year: 1993 Publisher: Washington Maisonneuve Press

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Dystopian states of America : apocalyptic visions and warnings in literature and film
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ISBN: 9798216182764 9798216182757 1440873399 9781440873393 Year: 2022 Publisher: Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO,

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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.

Apocalyptic dread : American film at the turn of the millennium
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ISBN: 079148033X 142947145X 9781429471459 9780791470435 0791470431 9780791470442 079147044X 9780791480335 Year: 2007 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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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.

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