Preface; Overview: Cinematic Visions of the Apocalypse; A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema: Fifty Films in Depth; An unnumbered photo essay; Appendices:; A Filmography of Fifty Additional Examples of Apocalyptic Cinema; B Sampling of Post-Apocalyptic...
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, KIT-Bibliothek
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Preface; Overview: Cinematic Visions of the Apocalypse; A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema: Fifty Films in Depth; An unnumbered photo essay; Appendices:; A Filmography of Fifty Additional Examples of Apocalyptic Cinema; B Sampling of Post-Apocalyptic Cinema; C Apocalyptic Television; A; Index; B; C; D; F; E; G; H; I; K; J; L; M; N; P; O; R; Q; S; T; V; W; U; Y; Z; X. This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic film studies fifty films that illustrate the variety, range and different categories of the genre. Apocalyptic films are those that depict, on screen as part of the story, an event threatening the extinction of mankind. A brief overview identifies seven major categories of apocalyptic films: the religious or supernatural, celestial collision, solar or orbital disruption, nuclear war and radioactive fallout, germ warfare or pestilence, alien device or invasion, and scientific miscalculation. Alphabetically arranged entries rate the fi