Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema

"Visions of the Apocalypse" examines the cinemas fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as "Saving Private Ryan," "Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, The Last Days of Man on Earth" and numerous others. Encompassing both questions of physical [...]
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"Visions of the Apocalypse" examines the cinemas fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as "Saving Private Ryan," "Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, The Last Days of Man on Earth" and numerous others. Encompassing both questions of physical and filmic mortality, this book is a meditation on the questions of time, memory and the cinemas seemingly unending appetite for spectacles of destruction.