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Feb 12, 2016 · Films which began to emerge after the 1945 Hiroshima bombing dealt explicitly with life after nuclear apocalypse, including Arch Oboler’s Five (1951), Roger Corman’s Day the World Ended (1955) and Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach (1959).
May 6, 2022 · The ten films chosen for analysis depict end of the world scenarios. Hence, they contain a thesis on time in terms of when the end of the world will take place and what the effects on human society will be, given this thesis on time.
Jan 10, 2017 · At the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, the abandoned movie theater, dubbed the “End of the World Cinema,” is a silent and bizarre view. It was built by Frenchman Diynn Eadel in...
Although the End of the World Cinema, also known as The Seventh World Cinema, has never shown a single film, its story is about ambition, misfortune, and relentless power. Here, we delve deeper into this intriguing site’s history, the tale of its abandonment, and what became of it later.
- Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Director: Stanley Kubrick. In the process of adapting Peter George’s novel Red Alert for the screen, Stanley Kubrick found the inherent absurdities of mutual assured destruction (MAD) – a military doctrine engendering peace between east and west through mutual threat of nuclear obliteration – leading him away from the straight thriller material of the source to what ultimately became a “nightmare comedy”.
- Seven Days in May (1964) Director: John Frankenheimer. In the 1960s, few filmmakers married contemporary concerns with action and thriller elements as well as John Frankenheimer.
- Fail Safe (1964) Director: Sidney Lumet. Released just months after Dr. Strangelove, Fail Safe has an almost identical premise – only where Kubrick’s film is a farce which laughs at humanity’s appetite for self-destruction, Sidney Lumet’s drama despairs.
- The War Game (1966) Director: Peter Watkins. While there was little comforting in Hollywood’s depiction of nuclear sabre-rattling in the period immediately following the Cuban missile crisis, Peter Watkins’ BBC film The War Game proved so unpalatably honest it would be banned from airing on British television for 20 years.
Jul 3, 2018 · Psychologists of the film can use their current understanding of how audiences experience mainstream cinema as a basis for differentiating what film semiologists call 'dispositives': clusters of...
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Considering such a vibrant southern imaginary, the denomination “Cinema at the End of the World” can be understood in various interrelated ways. Firstly, it alludes to the material conditions of cinematic culture emerging in the world’s most remote locations, including film production, screenings, and implausibly located cinema houses, such
