Kirsten Moana Thompson

Apocalyptic Dread (eBook, PDF)

American Film at the Turn of the Millennium

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 207
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791480335
• Artikelnr.: 60501250

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Moana Thompson is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wayne State University and coeditor (with Terri Ginsberg) of Perspectives on German Cinema.