Apocalyptic Dread by Kirsten Thompson

Apocalyptic Dread by Kirsten Thompson

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.

Kirsten Moana Thompson is assistant professor of film studies at Wayne State University and the co-editor of Perspectives on German Cinema.

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ISBN 13	9780791470442
ISBN 10	079147044X
Titel	Apocalyptic Dread
Autor	Kirsten Thompson
Serie	Suny Series Horizons Of Cinema
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	State University of New York Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-03-08
Seitenanzahl	208
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