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The contemporary American survival film / Cassice Last.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Last, Cassice, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film genres--United States--21st century.
- Film genres.
- Motion pictures--United States--21st century.
- Motion pictures.
- Survival in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- Summary:
- The only work investigating and breaking down the contemporary American Survival Film (from Cast Away onwards), focusing on film, television, literature and video games.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Entering the filmic survival space
- 1 Desert island risks: Cast Away's island as the twenty-first-century model for survival
- 2 Spaces of (dis)empowerment: Agency in 127 Hours and three survival gameworlds
- 3 Surviving (un)productive wounds and bodily transformations in The Shallows and Survivor
- 4 Choosing the American survival space with Bear Grylls and Christopher McCandless
- Conclusion: Human versus where (are we now)?
- Bibliography
- Filmography and other media
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501393198
- 1501393197
- 9781501393204
- 1501393200
- 9781501393181
- 1501393189
- OCLC:
- 1478251689
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