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Undead ends : stories of apocalypse
- Title
- Undead ends : stories of apocalypse / S. Trimble.
- Author
- Trimble, S. (Sarah)
- Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 194 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Undead Ends is about how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. This book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle. It asks what, exactly, is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take center stage, and why? And how do these films, sometimes in spite of themselves, make room to dream of new beginnings that don't just reboot the world we know? Trimble argues that contemporary apocalypse films aren't so much envisioning The End of the world as the end of a particular world; not The End of humanness but, rather, the end of Man. Through readings of The Road, I Am Legend, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Children of Men, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, this book demonstrates that popular stories of apocalypse can trouble, rather than reproduce, Man's story of humanness. With some creative re-reading, they can even unfold towards unexpected futures. Mainstream apocalypse films are, in short, an occasion to imagine a world After Man"--
- Subjects
- Apocalyptic films
- United States
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
- Apocalyptic films > Great Britain > History and criticism
- Apocalypse in motion pictures
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
- Apocalyptic films > United States > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 19-3920
- ISBN
- 9780813593654
- 0813593654
- 9780813593647
- 0813593646
- LCCN
- 2018035884
- OCLC
- 1055262928
- Author
- Trimble, S. (Sarah), author.
- Title
- Undead ends : stories of apocalypse / S. Trimble.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 19-3920