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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/140352762 Title: Apocalyptic dread : American film at the turn of the millennium Author: Kirsten Moana Thompson Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9781429471459 142947145X 9780791470435 0791470431 9780791470442 079147044X 9780791480335 079148033X OCLC:140352762

  
  

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Apocalyptic dread : American film at the turn of the millennium

Author:	Kirsten Moana Thompson
Publisher:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Series:	SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close reading 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."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Horror films -- United States -- History and criticism. Disaster films -- United States -- History and criticism. Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism. View all subjects
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