Re: Apocalypse films

From: Jack Sargeant (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 20:12:20 PST


I think it was on my list!

I'm presuming it turned up on Frameworks, but you never know if it
vanished into ether....

jack

> Peter Watkins' The War Game seems to come up on this list plenty, but
> it hasn't yet (has it?). On the Beach (starring Gregory Peck, Ava
> Gardner, Fred Astaire, & Anthony Perkins) is an interesting post-nuke
> film that I stumbled upon a few years ago. There's also an oddity
> from New Zealand that hasn't come up here: The Quiet Earth. There
> are really too many apocalypse films to count. And once you start
> including video games...good luck.
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> R.
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> On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:35 AM, Margaret Jamieson wrote:
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>> Hi List:
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>> I'm teaching a class on apocalypse films and would welcome any
>> suggestions, especially: shorter films, experimental films, non-
>> fiction, international films, and other platforms, like games or
>> installations. The premise of the course is to follow the anxieties
>> of culture through apocalypse films, and the readings go from
>> Boccaccio to Wheeler Winston Dixon, and the films from Birth of a
>> Nation to Bruce Connor (with, rest assured, lots of aliens in
>> between), so I'm very open to ideas.
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>> Thank you for your generosity, as always--MJ
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