03028nam 2200505Ia 450 991081375820332120240417033535.09780791480335 : (ebk : EbookCentral)9781429471459 : (ebk : EbookCentral)(MiAaPQ)EBC3407435(CKB)1000000000474011(DE-B1597)684479(DE-B1597)9780791480335(EXLCZ)99100000000047401120060420d2007 ub 0engurcn#|||uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierApocalyptic dread[electronic resource] American film at the turn of the millennium /Kirsten Moana Thompson1st ed.Albany State University of New York Press2007xii, 195p. ; ‡b illSUNY series, Horizons of CinemaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-179) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Apocalyptic Dread, Kierkegaard, and the Cultural Landscape of the Millennium -- Cape Fear and Trembling -- Strange Fruit -- Dolores Claiborne -- Se7en in the Morgue -- Signs of the End of the World -- War of the Worlds -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexIn Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings of such films as Cape Fear, Candyman, Dolores Claiborne, Se7en, Signs, and War of the Worlds, Thompson argues that a longstanding American apocalyptic tradition permeates our popular culture, spreading from science-fiction and disaster films into horror, crime, and melodrama. Drawing upon Kierkegaard's notion of dread—that is, a fundamental anxiety and ambivalence about existential choice and the future—Thompson suggests that the apocalyptic dread revealed in these films, and its guiding tropes of violence, retribution, and renewal, also reveal deep-seated anxieties about historical fragmentation and change, anxieties that are in turn displaced onto each film's particular "monster," whether human, demonic, or eschatological.SUNY series, horizons of cinema.Apocalypse in motion picturesDisaster filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismHorror filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismScience fiction filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismApocalypse in motion pictures.Disaster filmsHistory and criticism.Horror filmsHistory and criticism.Science fiction filmsHistory and criticism.791.43/6160973Thompson Kirsten Moana1708657MiAaPQt9910813758203321Apocalyptic dread4097832UNINA