Visions of the Apocalypse : spectacles of destruction in American cinema / Wheeler Winston Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster films--History and criticism.

Disaster films.

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Apocalypse in motion pictures.

Violence in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiii, 169 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, [2003]

Summary:

"Visions of the Apocalypse" examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as "Saving Private Ryan," "Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, The Last Days of Man on Earth" and numerous others. Encompassing both questions of physical and filmic mortality, this book is a meditation on the questions of time, memory and the cinema's seemingly unending appetite for spectacles of destruction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-158) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

1903364388

1903364744

OCLC:

52565391