Apocalyptic projections a study of past predictions, current trends and future intimations as related to film and literature / edited by Annette M. Magid.

Other author Magid, Annette M.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Descriptionxii, 253 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents Through Different Eyes : Relative Dystopia in Post-Apocalyptic Topoi / Luana B. Arossi -- Mainstreaming Marxism : Death Race as Critique of Apocalyptic Capitalism / Well Marshall -- Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower : Queer 'New Stories' of the 'Fourth Dimension of Citizenship' / Kirin Wachter-Grene -- After the Plague : Race and Survival in Jack London's The Scarlet Plague / Gina Rossetti / Dystopia 101 : The Millennials React to Metropolis Anna Hiller -- Caught in the Time Stream / Benjamin Delloiacono -- Getting the Doomsday We Deserve : Roland Emmerich's 2012 and the Neoliberal Disaster Film / Julian Cornell -- God and Machine : What it means to be Human in Deus Ex: Human Revolution / Philip Matthew Trad -- Strange Days : Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron's Vision of Crises of Gender, Race and Technology at the Turn of the Millennium / Dinah Holtzman -- The "Weird Spell" of the Empty City : Reimagining America in Post-Apocalyptic Films of the Atomic Age / Meghan Olivas -- Hope in the Face of Annihilation / Annette M. Magid.
General note"The majority of the papers included in Apocalyptic Projections ... were presented at the Norhteast Modern Language Association [NeMLA] in Rochester, New York, 2012 ..." -- Preface.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2020415811
ISBN1443872377 (hbk.)
ISBN9781443872379 (hbk.)

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