Apocalypse Cinema

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-9788-1985-6
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 114 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 2 g

Reihe: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prince, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmführer, Filmkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Prince is a professor of cinema at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He is the author of numerous books, including Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality and A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki.