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A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema
Mitchell, Charles P.
This examination and comprehensive assessment of apocalyptic cinema 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 films and provide production information, an annotated cast listing, a synopsis of the film, a critique, and representative quotes.
 
DOI: 10.1336/0313315272
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A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema
Hardback, 344 pages, $125.00
Copyright ©2001, Greenwood Press
ISBN: 0-313-31527-2
DOI: 10.1336/0313315272
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