Apocalyptic dread [[electronic resource] ] : American film at the turn of the millennium / / Kirsten Moana Thompson
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| Autore: |
Thompson Kirsten Moana
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| Titolo: |
Apocalyptic dread [[electronic resource] ] : American film at the turn of the millennium / / Kirsten Moana Thompson
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xii, 195p. ; ‡b ill |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/6160973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Apocalypse in motion pictures |
| Disaster films - United States - History and criticism | |
| Horror films - United States - History and criticism | |
| Science fiction films - United States - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-179) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Apocalyptic dread |
| ISBN: | 9780791480335 : (ebk : EbookCentral) |
| 9781429471459 : (ebk : EbookCentral) | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813758203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series, horizons of cinema.