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Apocalyptic Dread
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Author : Kirsten Moana Thompson
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Apocalyptic Dread written by Kirsten Moana Thompson and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema.
The Fiction Of Dread
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Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-12-14
The Fiction Of Dread written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermathof the World Wars, with such canonical examples as Brave New World and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre, in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culture-e.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasies-have confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century. Drawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and on TV and film such as The Walking Dead, Black Mirror, and The Last of Us, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. The Fiction of Dread provides an innovative reading of contemporary culture and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice at a moment when, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Empire Of Sacrifice
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Author : Jon Pahl
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-01-05
Empire Of Sacrifice written by Jon Pahl and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-05 with Social Science categories.
It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since 9/11, United States scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally. In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad.
Apocalyptic Discourse In Contemporary Culture
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Author : Monica Germana
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Apocalyptic Discourse In Contemporary Culture written by Monica Germana and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production. Examining the ways in which apocalyptic discourses have had an impact on how we read the world’s globalised space, the traumatic burden of history, and the mutual relationship between language and eschatological belief, fifteen original essays by a group of internationally established and emerging critics reflect on the apocalypse, its past tradition, pervasive present and future legacy. The collection seeks to offer a new reading of the apocalypse, understood as a complex – and, frequently, paradoxical – paradigm of (contemporary) Western culture. The majority of published collections on the subject have been published prior to the year 2000 and, in their majority of cases, locate the apocalypse in the future and envision it as something imminent. This collection offers a post-millennial perspective that perceives "the end" as immanent and, simultaneously, rooted in the past tradition.
Apocalyptic Chic
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Author : Barbara Brodman
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Apocalyptic Chic written by Barbara Brodman and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book focuses on legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the modern century: humanity’s fear of extinction and quest for survival.
The Child In Post Apocalyptic Cinema
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Author : Debbie Olson
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-03-06
The Child In Post Apocalyptic Cinema written by Debbie Olson and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-06 with Social Science categories.
This collection explores and interrogates the complex role of the child character in the dystopian landscape of post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.
Dread Gods
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Author : Ron Marz
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2019-01-08
Dread Gods written by Ron Marz and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
In a post-apocalyptic landscape, the population plugs into daily entertainment provided by the Prometheus conglomerate, featuring god-like heroes led by Zeus and Hera. In their bucolic paradise, the gods live glorious lives of adventure and romance, but Zeus is troubled by strange dreams, even as his long-simmering feud with Hades is about to boil over. Meanwhile, in the barren Wasteland, a wheelchair-bound man named Carver comes to believe the gods are in danger, and must be saved.
Dread
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Author : S Wharton
language : en
Publisher: WordsinSync Publications
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Dread written by S Wharton and has been published by WordsinSync Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Seeing The Apocalypse
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Author : Brandon R. Grafius
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-04-22
Seeing The Apocalypse written by Brandon R. Grafius and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-22 with Art categories.
Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman’s best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation. The essays in this collection offer an interdisciplinary approach to Bird Box, one that draws on the fields of gender studies, cultural studies, and disability studies.
Apocalyptic Transformation
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Author : Elizabeth K. Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2008-02-15
Apocalyptic Transformation written by Elizabeth K. Rosen and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself.