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Apocalyptic projections : a study of past predictions, current trends and future intimations as related to film and literature

Title
Apocalyptic projections : a study of past predictions, current trends and future intimations as related to film and literature / edited by Annette M. Magid.
Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

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Additional Authors
Magid, Annette M.
Description
xii, 253 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Apocalypse in literature > Congresses
  • Apocalypse in motion pictures > Congresses
Note
  • "The majority of the papers included in Apocalyptic Projections ... were presented at the Norhteast Modern Language Association [NeMLA] in Rochester, New York, 2012 ..." -- Preface.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Through Different Eyes : Relative Dystopia in Post-Apocalyptic Topoi / Luana B. Arossi -- Mainstreaming Marxism : Death Race as Critique of Apocalyptic Capitalism / Well Marshall -- Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower : Queer 'New Stories' of the 'Fourth Dimension of Citizenship' / Kirin Wachter-Grene -- After the Plague : Race and Survival in Jack London's The Scarlet Plague / Gina Rossetti / Dystopia 101 : The Millennials React to Metropolis Anna Hiller -- Caught in the Time Stream / Benjamin Delloiacono -- Getting the Doomsday We Deserve : Roland Emmerich's 2012 and the Neoliberal Disaster Film / Julian Cornell -- God and Machine : What it means to be Human in Deus Ex: Human Revolution / Philip Matthew Trad -- Strange Days : Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron's Vision of Crises of Gender, Race and Technology at the Turn of the Millennium / Dinah Holtzman -- The "Weird Spell" of the Empty City : Reimagining America in Post-Apocalyptic Films of the Atomic Age / Meghan Olivas -- Hope in the Face of Annihilation / Annette M. Magid.
Call Number
JFD 15-2829
ISBN
  • 9781443872379
  • 1443872377
OCLC
908323588
Title
Apocalyptic projections : a study of past predictions, current trends and future intimations as related to film and literature / edited by Annette M. Magid.
Publisher
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Magid, Annette M., editor.
Research Call Number
JFD 15-2829
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