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Chargement... Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinemapar Wheeler Winston Dixon
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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, Invasion U.S.A., The Last War, Tidal Wave, The Bed Sitting Room, The Last Days of Man on Earth and numerous others. It also considers the ways in which contemporary cinema has become increasingly hyper-conglomerised, leading to films with ever-higher budgets and fewer creative risks. Along the way, the author discusses such topics as the death of film itself, to be replaced by digital video; the political and social tensions that have made these visions of infinite destruction so appealing to the public; and the new wave of Hollywood war films, coupled with escapist comedies, in the post-9/11 era. Encompassing both questions of physical and filmic mortality Visions of the Apocalypse is a meditation on the questions of time, memory and the cinema's seemingly unending appetite for spectacles of destruction. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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While there are plenty of apocalyptic film mentions, there are not quite enough for a book that is supposed to a study of film. Instead, this book focuses on the issues occurring in the real world during the period the film was made. Dixon also discusses Sept. 11, the impact it was having on film in the year since the attack, and the death of traditional film as it was replaced by digital video (Attack of the Clones is discussed heavily in its role in this movement).
Dixon does an excellent job of breaking down the problems in the world and in Hollywood, especially the rise of the B movie to A status and the hyperconglomeration of the world media. This is more a thesis on the current state of the world and how Hollywood film has either influenced or been influenced by various apocalyptic scenarios we have faced over time. Pity that's not how the book is marketed. (