Stephen Prince

Apocalypse Cinema

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covering such films as Metropolis, Dr. Strangelove, Contagion, and  Avengers: Endgame, this book provides a lively overview of apocalypse cinema, including alien invasion movies, nuclear annihilation stories, and films where nature itself threatens humanity through climate change or deadly diseases.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 172mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 114g
• ISBN-13: 9781978819849
• ISBN-10: 1978819846
• Artikelnr.: 60365565

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN PRINCE (1955 - 2020) was a professor of cinema at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He authored numerous books, including Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality and A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki (both Rutgers University Press).  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sources and Traditions in Apocalyptic Cinema
2. Astrophobia
3. I'm Not Saying We Wouldn't Get Our Hair Mussed
4. The Revenge of Nature
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Works Cited
Index