Ebook: Visions of the Apocalypse: spectacles of destruction in American cinema
Author: Dixon Wheeler W
- Tags: Apocalypse--Au cinéma, Film, Films-catastrophes--Histoire et critique, Films de guerre--Histoire et critique, Fin du monde au cinéma, Fin du monde--Histoire et critique, Internationale orde, PERFORMING ARTS--Reference, Politieke aspecten, Rampenfilms, Sociale aspecten, Terrorisme, Violence au cinéma, Violence--Au cinéma, Weltuntergang, Zerstörung, Disaster films--History and criticism, Disaster films, Criticism interpretation etc., Electronic books, Disaster films -- History and criticism, Films-catastrophes -- Hi
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Wallflower
- City: London;New York;USA
- Language: English
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Introduction: Tyranny of Images -- Freedom from Choice -- Invasion USA -- Limits of Time -- Coda: The Copenhagen Defense.;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.
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