The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema. In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings 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.

Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium (Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema)

Humor & Entertainment

Thompson, Kirsten Moana

Movies

State Univ of New York Pr

The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema. In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the future are reflected in recent American cinema. Through close readings 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.

Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium (Horizons of Cinema)

State University of New York Press

As German reunification has increased attention to German history and culture, scholarly output devoted to all phases of the history of German film has escalated rapidly. This collection of essays and articles addresses a wide range of historical issues, including the politics of gender and sexuality; the Holocaust; feminism; and Nazi propaganda films. These discussions of dramas and documentaries, filmmakers and artistic ideologies cover all aspects of German cinema, from its silent beginnings to the present day.

Perspectives on German Cinema (Perspectives on Film Series)

Ginsberg, Terri

Twayne Pub

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