Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Redmond, Sean

Titel

Apocalyptic Dread: American Film at the Turn of the Millennium (review)

Ist Teil von

• Science Fiction Film and Television, 2009, Vol.2 (1), p.145-148

Ort / Verlag

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Wherever I look, wherever I am directed to look by the all-seeing eye of the camera lens, the individuated body, the imagined or constructed public body of 'civilised' culture and of the Nation State, and the technological and carnal body of the screen, come into troubling view. While film is an art form born in and of violence - according to André Bazin the film image is akin to a death mask, and as such is involved in killing the world it seeks to shoot - there is something historically specific about the lens that has so much of the blood of the world on it. According to Thompson, it has scorched the popular imaginary since time immemorial.