Visions of the Apocalypse
Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema
Visions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, Invasion U.S.A., The Last War, Tidal Wave, The Bed Sitting Room, The Last Days of Man on Earth and numerous others. It also considers the ways in which contemporary cinema has become increasingly hyper-conglomerised, leading to films with ever-higher budgets and fewer creative risks. Along the way, the author discusses such topics as the death of film itself, to be replaced by digital video; the political and social tensions that have made t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-85048-3
- EAN: 9780231850483
- Produktnummer: 22609449
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'091 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 illus.
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Wheeler Winston Dixon
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