Re: Apocalypse films

From: marco poloni (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2009 - 01:27:50 PST

“On the Beach” seems really worth seeing. There's an excellent analysis of it in post-marxist key ba Alan Sekula in his book “Fish Story”.
Marco


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From: Roger Beebe <(address suppressed)>
Sent: Jan 21, 2009 4:56 AM
To: (address suppressed)
Subject: Re: Apocalypse films

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.

On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:35 AM, Margaret Jamieson wrote:





Hi List:

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.  

Thank you for your generosity, as always--MJ

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