Apocalypse-Cinema : 2012 and Other Ends of the World.
Peter. Szendy
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (182 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: One Sun Too Many -- Chapter 1 Melancholia, or The After-All -- Chapter 2 The Last Man on Earth, or Film as Countdown -- Chapter 3 Cloverfield, or The Holocaust of the Date -- Chapter 4 Terminator, or The Arche-Traveling Shot -- Chapter 5 2012, or Pyrotechnics -- Chapter 6 A.I., or The Freeze -- Chapter 7 Pause, for Inventory (the "Apo") -- Chapter 8 Watchmen, or The Layering of the Cineworld -- Chapter 9 Sunshine, or The Black-and-White Radiography -- Chapter 10 Blade Runner, or The Interworlds -- Chapter 11 Twelve Monkeys, or The Pipes of the Apocalypse -- Chapter 12 The Road, or The Language of a Drowned Era -- Chapter 13 The Blob, or The Bubble -- Postface: Il n'y a pas de hors-film, or Cinema and Its Cinders -- Notes -- Index of Films -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.. - By analyzing many films, by drawing on the philosophy of Lyotard, Nancy, and Derrida, this book suggest that in the apocalyptic genre, cinema is at work on its limit. Apocalypse-cinema is both the end of the world and the end of the film, the consummation and the (self)consumption of cinema.
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| ISBN | 9780823264841
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