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Book SynopsisFraming modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle, Trimble argues that contemporary apocalypse films aren’t so much envisioning The End of the world as the end of a particular world; not The End of humanness but, rather, the end of Man.
Trade Review“
Undead Ends is a remarkable book—an imaginative, often brilliant, contribution to the long Western genealogies of apocalyptic thinking and to the ways that contemporary insurgent racialized, gendered, anti-colonialist movements have struggled to claim and transform apocalyptic politics and aesthetics.” -- James Berger * author of After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse *
"Sensitive to questions of race, gender, and sexuality, Trimble never presumes a universal 'we' and writes with flair about representations of the End. An exciting new study of apocalyptic cinema." -- Diana Adesola Mafe * author of Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV *
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Undead Ends is a valuable and timely addition to the literature on climate fiction and apocalypse narratives. Through her well-written and nuanced readings of Anglo-American apocalypse films, Trimble illuminates and problematizes the “we” of widespread apocalypse narratives by relating the films’ plots and perspectives both to 500 years of colonial history and to the “disaster capitalism” of recent decades. We will be better off if we read
Undead Ends—with regard to everyday life as well as to COVID-19 and other potentially apocalyptic hazards down the road." * SFRA Review *
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Introduction: Storytelling and Survival
1 Telling Other Tales: Rememory in The Road
2 Adaptations and Mutations: I Am Legend’s Double Helix
3 Revolting Reanimations: The 28 Films
4 Maternal Backgrounds: Children of Men
5 Myth and Metamorphosis: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Epilogue: After Man, or, Death by Story
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
