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OverviewUndead Ends is about how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. This book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle. It asks what, exactly, is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take center stage, and why? And how do these films, sometimes in spite of themselves, make room to dream of new beginnings that don’t just reboot the world we know? 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. Through readings of The Road, I Am Legend, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Children of Men, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, this book demonstrates that popular stories of apocalypse can trouble, rather than reproduce, Man’s story of humanness. With some creative re-reading, they can even unfold towards unexpected futures. Mainstream apocalypse films are, in short, an occasion to imagine a world After Man. Full Product DetailsAuthor: S. TrimblePublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9780813593647ISBN 10: 0813593646 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 03 May 2019 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsSensitive 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 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 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 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 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 Author InformationS. TRIMBLE teaches at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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