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Call No: 740.1 APO
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Lanham Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: c2016
PhysDes: xxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject: APOCALYPSE IN FILMS; DISASTER FILMS; CIVILISATION (US, Raymond B. West, 1916); FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Rex Ingram, 1921); BED SITTING ROOM, THE (UK, Richard Lester, 1969); [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); MELANCHOLIA (DK/SW/FR/G, Lars von Trier, 2011); OFFRET [SACRIFICE, THE] (SW/FR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
Summary: We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future. The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World offers an overview of Armageddon in film from the silent era to the present. This collection of essays discusses how such films reflect social anxieties—ones that are linked to economic, ecological, and cultural factors. Featuring a broad spectrum of international scholars specializing in different historical genres and methodologies, these essays look at a number of films, including the silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Mayan calendar disaster epic, 2012, and in particular, Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, the focus of several essays. As some filmmakers translate the anxiety about a changing global climate and geo-political relations into visions of the apocalypse, others articulate worries about the planet’s future by depicting chemical warfare, environmental disasters, or human made destruction. This book analyzes the emergence of apocalyptic and dystopic narratives and explores the political and social situations on which these films are based. Contributing to the dialogue on dystopic culture in war and peace, The Apocalypse in Film will be of interest to scholars in film and media studies, border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science. -- taken from publisher's site
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781442260276
Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2016
Contents: Introduction / Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Angela Krewani -- THE EARLY DEPICTIONS OF DISASTER. World War One and Hollywood's First Modern Armageddon: Understanding Wartime and Post-Conflict Representations of a Global Cataclysm in Civilization (1916) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) / Cle´mentine Tholas-Disset -- The end of the world: loss and redemption in Four horsemen of the apocalypse / Karen Randell -- GLOBAL DEMISE AND COLD WAR. "Radiation's rising, but one mustn't grumble too much": nuclear apocalypse played as farce in Richard Lester's The bed-sitting room / Thomas Prasch -- The legacy of Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick, science fiction blockbusters and the future of humanity / Peter Kra¨mer -- "Gentleman, you can't fight in here": gender symbolism and the end of the world in Dr. Strangelove and Melancholia / Catriona Mcavoy -- MELANCHOLIA AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF THE APOCALYSPE. Is there an end to it? fictional shelters and shelter-fiction / Solvejg Nitzke -- Melancholia and the apocalypse within / Pierre Floquet -- Eco apocalypse: environmentalism, political alienation and therapeutic agency / Philip Hammond and Hugh Ortega Breton --POLOITICS OF SHOWING THE UNTHINKABLE. Disaster films: the end of the world and the risk society hero / Frederick Wasser -- The (gender) politics of disaster in 2012 / Charles Antoine Courcoux -- Tarkovsky's The sacrifice: a religious humanist apocalypse / Tatjana Ljuji -- Dead narratives: defining humanity through stories / A. Fiona Pearson and Scott Ellis -- MOVING BEYOND THE END OF THE WORLD. Opposing Thatcherism: filmic apocalypse as a political strategy in 1980s Britain / Angela Krewani -- Painting in time: on the use of digital visual effects in Melancholia / Andreas Kirchner -- The corporate and corporeal: min(d)ing the body conscience and consumption in early 21st century Hollywood dystopia / Wendy Sterba.

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Publicity; Clippings
Subject: FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962)

Call No: 70 ROT
Author: Rotha, Paul
Place: London New York
Publisher: The Studio, ld. The Studio publications, inc
PubDate: [1936]
PhysDes: ix,142 p. : illus. ; 30 cm
Subject: ADVENTURE FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; COMEDIES; CRIME FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; EPIC FILMS; FANTASTIC FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; MELODRAMA; MUSICALS; ROMANIES IN FILM; SATIRE IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; WESTERNS; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); CHYORTOVO KOLESO (UR, Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1926); FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); LOST PATROL, THE (US, John Ford, 1934); OUR HOSPITALITY (US, Buster Keaton & John Blystone, 1923); PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931); QUICK MILLIONS (US, Rowland Brown, 1931); SON OF KONG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933); SPEEDY (US, Ted Wilde, 1928); TABU (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1931); TESTAMENT DES DOKTOR MABUSE, DAS (G, Fritz Lang, 1933); WINGS (US, William Wellman, 1927); WOMAN OF PARIS, A (US, Charles Chaplin, 1923)
Notes: Title on two leaves; "Pictorial survey ... some 600 stills ... from all parts of the world."--p. [iv]
LON: 1376838

Call No: 70"192" MUL
Author: Muller, Jurgen
Edition: 2007
Place: Koln
Publisher: Taschen GMBH
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: 482 pgaes : illustrated ; 26 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; TRIP TO THE MOON [VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE] (FR, George Melies, 1902); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913); CABIRIA (IT, Giovanni Pastrone, 1914); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); MADAME DUBARRY (G, Ernst Lubitsch, 1919); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920); EROTIKON (SW, Mauritz Stiller, 1920); GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WILT KAM, DER (G, Paul Wegener & Carl Bose, 1920); KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922); FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Rex Ingram, 1921); THREE MUSKETEERS, THE (US, Fred Niblo, 1921); ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925); TOL'ABLE DAVID (US, Henry King, 1921); NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); HAXAN [WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES] (SW/DK, Benjamin Christensen, 1922); [DOKTOR] DR. MABUSE DER SPIELER (G, Fritz Lang, 1922); SAFETY LAST (US, Fred Newmayer/Sam Taylor, 1923); HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (US, Wallace Worsley, 1923); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1923); WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924); THIEF OF BAGDAD (US, Raoul Walsh, 1924); SHERLOCK, JR. (US, Buster Keaton, 1924); NIBELUNGEN, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1922-24); LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924); NAVIGATOR, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp, 1924); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); FREUDLOSE GASSE, DIE (G, Wilhelm Pabst, 1925); PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE (US, Rupert Julian, 1925); SON OF THE SHEIK, THE (US, George Fitzmaurice, 1926); LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); BLACK PIRATE, THE (US, Albert Parker, 1926); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); KONETS SANKT-PETERSBURGA (UR, Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1927); BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927); CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'ITALIE, UN (FR, Rene Clair, 1927); SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); CROWD, THE (US, King Vidor, 1928); WIND, THE (US, Victor Sjostrom, 1928); CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BUCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929); CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928); LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931); BLAUE ENGEL, DER (G, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (US, Lewis Milestone, 1930); SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1929); MOROCCO (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); WESTFRONT 1918 (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1930); AGE D'OR, L' (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1930)
Notes: From the invention of the moving picture to the first sound movies From the first moving pictures (the Lumiere brothers' 1895 L'arrive d'un train), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the first three decades of the moving picture around the world. In America, we witness the birth of Hollywood, circa 1910, where film quickly became a powerful industry and D. W. Griffith put American cinema on the map; later, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton developed a new language of visual comedy while eccentrics like Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille turned cinema into a high art form and show biz respectively, and sex symbols like Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo heated up the screens. Meanwhile, in Europe, German directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang were establishing their careers and Russian greats Eisenstein and Pudovkin were already revolutionizing a nascent art form. At the end of the 1920s the very first "talkies", albeit rudimentary ones, brutally crushed the silent art, but by 1930 sound masterpieces such as Sternberg's The Blue Angel and Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front were produced. This exploration of the founding years of cinema offers a fascinating perspective on a period in movie history that is far too often overlooked in our times. -- jacket blurb
ISBN: 9783822846131
Donation: Megan McMurchy

Call No: 62 KRA
Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1965
PhysDes: xix, 364 p. ill., 20 cm.
Subject: ACTORS; ADAPTATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; THEORY; AGEE, JAMES; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIJ; ANGER, KENNETH; ANSTEY, EDGAR; ARNHEIM, RUDOLF; ASTAIRE, FRED; BALAZS, BELA; BENJAMIN, WALTER; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BRANDO, MARLON; BUNUEL, LUIS; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; CASTELLANI, RENATO; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO; CHANEY, LON; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; CLAIR, RENE; CLEMENT, RENE; CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES; COCTEAU, JEAN; DALI, SALVADOR; DE FILIPPO, EDUARDO; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DE SICA, VITTORIO; DISNEY, WALT; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; DREYER, CARL TH.; DUCHAMP, MARCEL; DUVIVIER, JULIEN; ELTON, ARTHUR; ENGEL, MORRIS; EPSTEIN, JEAN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FEUILLADE, LOUIS; FEYDER, JACQUES; FISCHINGER, OSKAR; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; FRANJU, GEORGES; FREUD, SIGMUND; GANCE, ABEL; GARNETT, GALE; GIDE, ANDRE; GREENE, GRAHAM; GRIERSON, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD; GUITRY, SACHA; HARRINGTON, CURTIS; HILL, DAVID; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924); SMULTRONSTALLET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); VITELLONI, I (IT, Federico Fellini, 1953); VAMPYR : DER TRAUM DES ALLEN GRAY (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932); VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); VALLEY TOWN - A STUDY OF MACHINES AND MEN (US, Willard Van Dyke, 1940); UMBERTO D. (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1952); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949); OKTIABR (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1928); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956); SYMPHONIE PASTORALE, LA (FR, Jean Delannoy, 1946); SWING TIME (US, George Stevens, 1936); STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954); ROMAN D'UN TRICHEUR, LE (FR, Sacha Guitry, 1936); MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946); SPIONE (G, Fritz Lang, 1928); SPELLBOUND (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945); SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1930); SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937); SMILING LIEUTENANT, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1931); SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953); SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); GEHEIMNISSE EINER SEELE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1926); SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju,1949); SAN FRANCISCO (US, W.S. Van Dyke, 1936); ROUE, LA (FR, Abel Gance, 1922); ROMEO I DZULETTA (UR, Lev Arnstam & Leonid Lavrovskij, 1954); RICHARD III (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1955); REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939); RED SHOES, THE (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948); RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950); REGEN (NE, Joris Ivens, 1929); PYGMALION (UK, Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard, 1938); PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951); PATHER PANCHALI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1955); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); PARIS 1900 (FR, Nicole Vedres, 1948); PARADINE CASE, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947); OTELLO (UR, Sergej Jutkevic, 1956); ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); OLVIDADOS, LOS (MX, Luis Bunuel, 1951); OF MEN AND MUSIC (US, Irving Reis, 1950); NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A (US, Sam Wood, 1935); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); MOULIN ROUGE (UK, E.A. Dupont, 1928); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MOBY DICK (UK, John Huston, 1956); MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); MILLION, LE (FR, Rene Clair, 1931); METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927); MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943); MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG (G, Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer, 1929); MARTY (US, Delbert Mann, 1954); MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1936); MAJOR BARBARA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1941); MADAME BOVARY (FR, Claude Chabrol, 1991); MACBETH (US, Orson Welles, 1948); M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); LIMELIGHT (US, Charles Chaplin, 1952); LIFEBOAT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944); OSTATNI ETAP (PL, Wanda Jakubowska, 1948); LADY IN THE LAKE (US, Robert Montgomery, 1946); KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); JULIUS CAESAR (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); INVISIBLE MAN, THE (US, James Whale, 1933); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); HUMAN DESIRE (US, Fritz Lang, 1954); HOUSING PROBLEMS (UK, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, 1935); HOTEL DES INVALIDES (FR, Georges Franju, 1952); HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952); HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944); HEIRESS, THE (US, William Wyler, 1949); HATFUL OF RAIN, A (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1957); HAMLET (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1948); HALLELUJAH! (US, King Vidor, 1929); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); ORO DI NAPOLI, L' (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1954); GOLD OF NAPLES (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1954); GLASS MENAGERIE, THE (US, Irving Rapper, 1950); VORMITTAGSSPUK (G, Hans Richter, 1928); GHOST GOES WEST, THE (UK, Rene Clair, 1935); GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947); GERVAISE (FR, Rene Clement, 1956); JIGOKUMON (JA, Teinosuke kinugasa, 1953); FURY (US, Fritz Lang, 1936); FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); FARREBIQUE (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1945); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); ZEMLJA (UR, Alexksandr Dovzenko, 1930); JOURNAL D'UN CURE DE CAMPAGNE (FR, Robert Bresson, 1951); DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (US, George Marshall, 1939); MUDE TOD, DER (G, Fritz Lang, 1921); DEATH OF A SALESMAN (US, Laslo Benedek, 1951); DEAD OF NIGHT (UK, Alberto Cavalcanti & Charles Crichton & Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer, 1945); CONDAMNE A MORT S`EST ECHAPPE, UN (FR, Robert Bresson, 1956); CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CINDERELLA (US, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Laske & Clyde Geronomi, 1950); CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928); BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919); BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 (US, Norman Taurog, 1940); BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945); BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); SANG D'UN POETE, LE (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1932); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949); BEZZERIDES, A.I.; BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); BAMBI (US, David Hand, 1942); BALLET MECANIQUE, LE (FR, Fernand Leger, 1924); BACK STREET (US, John M. Stahl, 1932); ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934); A PROPOS DE NICE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930); APARAJITO (II, Satyajit Ray, 1957); ANNA CHRISTIE (US, Clarence Brown, 1930); ANATOMY OF A MURDER (US, Otto Preminger, 1959); AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN (Josef von Sternberg, 1931); ALEKSANDR NEVSKI (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1938); BROADWAY MELODY, THE (US, Harry Beaumont, 1929); LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924)
Notes: Frist published 1960; Previously published as: Nature of films. England : Dobson ;1965; Includes bilbiograpy: p. 351-364; Includes index
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