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Apocalypse cinema
- Title
- Apocalypse cinema / Stephen Prince.
- Author
- Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020
- Publication
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
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- Description
- 144 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Quick takes: movies and popular culture
- Uniform Title
- Quick takes.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Sources and Traditions in Apocalyptic Cinema -- Astrophobia -- I'm Not Saying We Wouldn't Get Our Hair Mussed -- Revenge of Nature.
- Call Number
- MFL 22-410
- ISBN
- 9781978819849
- 1978819846
- 9781978819856
- 1978819854
- LCCN
- 2020043868
- OCLC
- 1198557971
- Author
- Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020, author.
- Title
- Apocalypse cinema / Stephen Prince.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Quick takes: movies and popular cultureQuick takes.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- ANALYZES HOW APOCALYPSE MOVIES EXPLORE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS OF EXISTENCE.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 22-410