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We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future.
The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World offers an overview of Armageddon in film from the silent era to the present. This collection of essays discusses how such films reflect social anxieties—ones that are linked to economic, ecological, and cultural factors. Featuring a broad spectrum of international scholars specializing in different historical genres and methodologies, these essays look at a number of films, including the silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Mayan calendar disaster epic, 2012, and in particular, Lars Von Trier's Melancholia, the focus of several essays.
As some filmmakers translate the anxiety about a changing global climate and geo-political relations into visions of the apocalypse, others articulate worries about the planet's future by depicting chemical warfare, environmental disasters, or human made destruction. This book analyzes the emergence of apocalyptic and dystopic narratives and explores the political and social situations on which these films are based. Contributing to the dialogue on dystopic culture in war and peace, The Apocalypse in Film will be of interest to scholars in film and media studies, border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Angela Krewani
PART I THE EARLY DEPICTIONS OF DISASTER
Chapter 1 World War One and Hollywood's First Modern Armageddon: Understanding Wartime and Post-Conflict Representations of a Global Cataclysm in Civilization (1916) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Clémentine Tholas-Disset
Chapter 2 The End of the World: Loss and Redemption in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Karen Randell
PART II GLOBAL DEMISE AND COLD WAR
Chapter 3 'Radiation's rising, but one mustn't grumble too much': Nuclear Apocalypse Played as Farce in Richard Lester's The Bed-Sitting Room (1969)
Thomas Prasch
Chapter 4 The Legacy of Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick, Science Fiction Blockbusters and the Future of Humanity
Peter Krämer
Chapter 5 'Gentleman, You Can't Fight in Here': Gender Symbolism and the End of the World in Dr. Strangelove and Melancholia
Catriona McAvoy
PART III MELANCHOLIA AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF THE APOCALYPSE
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