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Book SynopsisBy analyzing many films, by drawing on the philosophy of Lyotard, Nancy, and Derrida, this book suggest that in the apocalyptic genre, cinema is at work on its limit. Apocalypse-cinema is both the end of the world and the end of the film, the consummation and the (self)consumption of cinema.
Trade ReviewArmed with an arsenal of audacious concepts, Peter Szendy confronts the torment of blockbusters with style. Before venturing to spend your next night out at the silver screen, be sure to take this thrilling film survival manual with you." -Philosophie Magazine "In this prodigiously intelligent book, Peter Szendy reflects on the specific nature of apocalyptic cinema. Organized as a series of brief essays on individual films and recurrent cinematic strategies, Apocalypse-Cinema offers brilliant insights on a genre that has yet to receive all the critical attention it deserves." -- -Marie Helene Huet Princeton University "Apocalypse-Cinema is a brilliantly-executed, timely book, a tour-de-force encounter with a major film genre that has been too much neglected by 'serious' film scholars. Szendy's survey of the highs and lows of the 'apo' canon is nuanced and impeccably grounded in contemporary philosophy and film theory." -- -Terry Harpold University of Florida
Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1. Melancholia, or the After-All 2. The Last Man on Earth, or Film as Countdown 3. Cloverfield, or the Holocaust of the Date 4. Terminator, or the Arche-Travelling Shot 5. 2012, or Pyrotechnics 6. A.I., or the Freeze 7. Pause, For Inventory (The "Apo") 8. Watchmen, or the layering of the cineworld 9. Sunshine, or The Black-and-White Radiography 10. Blade Runner, or the Interworlds 11. Twelve Monkeys, or the Pipes of the Apocalypse 12. The Road, or the Language of a Drowned Era 13. The Blob, or the Bubble 14. Postface: Il n'y a pas de hors-film, or cinema and its cinders
