LEADER 03028nam 2200505Ia 450 001 9910813758203321 005 20240417033535.0 010 $a9780791480335 : (ebk : EbookCentral) 010 $a9781429471459 : (ebk : EbookCentral) 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407435 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474011 035 $a(DE-B1597)684479 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791480335 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474011 100 $a20060420d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aApocalyptic dread$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican film at the turn of the millennium /$fKirsten Moana Thompson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$d2007 215 $axii, 195p. ; ?b ill 225 0 $aSUNY series, Horizons of Cinema 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-179) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tApocalyptic Dread, Kierkegaard, and the Cultural Landscape of the Millennium -- $tCape Fear and Trembling -- $tStrange Fruit -- $tDolores Claiborne -- $tSe7en in the Morgue -- $tSigns of the End of the World -- $tWar of the Worlds -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings of such films as Cape Fear, Candyman, Dolores Claiborne, Se7en, Signs, and War of the Worlds, Thompson argues that a longstanding American apocalyptic tradition permeates our popular culture, spreading from science-fiction and disaster films into horror, crime, and melodrama. Drawing upon Kierkegaard's notion of dread?that is, a fundamental anxiety and ambivalence about existential choice and the future?Thompson suggests that the apocalyptic dread revealed in these films, and its guiding tropes of violence, retribution, and renewal, also reveal deep-seated anxieties about historical fragmentation and change, anxieties that are in turn displaced onto each film's particular "monster," whether human, demonic, or eschatological. 410 0$aSUNY series, horizons of cinema. 606 $aApocalypse in motion pictures 606 $aDisaster films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHorror films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aScience fiction films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aApocalypse in motion pictures. 615 0$aDisaster films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHorror films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.43/6160973 700 $aThompson$b Kirsten Moana$01708657 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bt 912 $a9910813758203321 996 $aApocalyptic dread$94097832 997 $aUNINA