Apocalypse-Cinema : : 2012 and Other Ends of the World / / Peter Szendy.
Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runn...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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