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Armageddon Films FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Zombies, Contagions, Aliens and the End of the World as We Know It!
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Armageddon Films FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Zombies, Contagions, Aliens and the End of the World as We Know It!
About this book
Mankind has been predicting its own demise through various methods, from fables and religious scriptures to hard-core scientific studies since the dawn of time. And if there is one thing Hollywood knows how to exploit, it is the fears of Things to Come. Movies about the end of the world have been around since the early days of cinema, and Armageddon Film FAQ is a look into the various methods we have destroyed ourselves over the years: zombies, mad computers, uptight aliens, plunging objects from space, crazed animals, Satan, God, Contagions, the ever-popular atomic bomb, sometimes even a combination of these in the same movie! Armageddon Films FAQ goes from the silent days of filmmaking to the most recent (literally) earth-shattering epics, from cinema to television and even the novels, from comedies to dramas, from supernatural to scientific. It also explores other aspects of the genre, such as iconic but unfilmable apocalyptic novels, postnuclear car-racing flicks, domestic dramas disguised as end-of-the-world actioners, and more â from the most depressing to the happiest Armageddons ever!
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Spoiler Alert!
- 1. Ten Famous Apocalyptic Novels Never Turned into Major Films: The Pitch Meetings
- 2. When Film Was Young, the Earth Was Doomed: Early Examples of Armageddon
- 3. Congrats! Youâve Slept Through Armageddon: Movies Where the Protagonist Missed the End of the World
- 4. Five Years Left to Cry In: Movies Where the End Is a Foregone Conclusion
- 5. Oh, Yeah, Babylon: Movies Featuring Apocalyptic Events We Forgot Happened
- 6. Apocalyptic or Dystopian? Futuristic Societies That May or May Not Be Due to the Apocalypse
- 7. A Man, a Woman, a Nuclear Bomb: Nuclear Dramas
- 8. I Am Legend . . . but Mostly to Readers: The Classic Richard Matheson Novel and Its Various Adaptations
- 9. Contagion Movies: Wiping Us Out, One Person at a Time
- 10. We Have Become Them: How Zombies Slowly Took Over the World
- 11. The Supernatural: When the Undead Just Arenât Enough
- 12. Onward, Christian Soldiers: The End-Time Flicks
- 13. War of the Worlds: A Look Back at Our Many First Encounters with the Martians
- 14. Body Snatching: Invasions over the Years
- 15. Aliens Are Jerks: While the Pods and Martians Were Busy
- 16. Slamminâ: The Movies That Define How the Earth Is Getting Smashed!
- 17. Let Me Tell You About The Birds and The Bees: Ecological Disasters and Their Films
- 18. Exterminate! Eradicate! Et Cetera!: Movies Where Technology Takes Control
- 19. The Earth Is Dead, but Whereâs My Car? Ten Postapocalyptic/Prehistoric/Present-Day Car Flicks
- 20. Armageddon, Coming This Fall: Television Apocalypses
- 21. I Want My Armageddon! The Top Ten Music Videos in Early Apocalyptic Rotation
- 22. Go Out Smiling: Movies That Show the âFunny Sideâ of Armageddon
- 23. Survival and Armageddon Films: In the End, What Does It All Mean?
- Appendix: Ten Things You Need to Survive the Apocalypse
- Selected Bibliography