{"product_id":"undead-ends-stories-of-apocalypse-paperback-softback-9780813593647","title":"Undead Ends; Stories of Apocalypse (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813593647","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUndead Ends\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStories of Apocalypse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eS. Trimble (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813593647\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 May 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e210 pages, 15 b-w\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUndead Ends\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable and timely addition to the literature on climate fiction and apocalypse narratives. Through her well-written and nuanced readings of Anglo-American apocalypse films, Trimble illuminates and problematizes the \"we\" of widespread apocalypse narratives by relating the films' plots and perspectives both to 500 years of colonial history and to the \"disaster capitalism\" of recent decades. We will be better off if we read \u003ci\u003eUndead Ends\u003c\/i\u003e—with regard to everyday life as well as to COVID-19 and other potentially apocalyptic hazards down the road.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— SFRA Review\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Sensitive to questions of race, gender, and sexuality, Trimble never presumes a universal 'we' and writes with flair about representations of the End. An exciting new study of apocalyptic cinema.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Diana Adesola Mafe, author of Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUndead Ends\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable book—an imaginative, often brilliant, contribution to the long Western genealogies of apocalyptic thinking and to the ways that contemporary insurgent racialized, gendered, anti-colonialist movements have struggled to claim and transform apocalyptic politics and aesthetics.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— James Berger, author of After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eUndead Ends\u003c\/i\u003e is about how we imagine humanness and survival in the aftermath of disaster. This book frames modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle. It asks what, exactly, is ending? Whose dreams of starting over take center stage, and why? And how do these films, sometimes in spite of themselves, make room to dream of new beginnings that don't just reboot the world we know? Trimble argues that contemporary apocalypse films aren't so much envisioning The End of the world as the end of a particular world; not The End of humanness but, rather, the end of Man. Through readings of \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Am Legend\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e28 Days Later\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e28 Weeks Later\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChildren of Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeasts of the Southern Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, this book demonstrates that popular stories of apocalypse can trouble, rather than reproduce, Man's story of humanness. With some creative re-reading, they can even unfold towards unexpected futures. Mainstream apocalypse films are, in short, an occasion to imagine a world After Man.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Storytelling and Survival\u003cbr\u003e 1          Telling Other Tales: Rememory in \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e              \u003cbr\u003e 2          Adaptations and Mutations: \u003ci\u003eI Am Legend\u003c\/i\u003e's Double Helix              \u003cbr\u003e 3          Revolting Reanimations: The \u003ci\u003e28\u003c\/i\u003e Films         \u003cbr\u003e 4          Maternal Backgrounds: \u003ci\u003eChildren of Men\u003c\/i\u003e        \u003cbr\u003e 5          Myth and Metamorphosis: \u003ci\u003eBeasts of the Southern Wild\u003c\/i\u003e       \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: After Man, or, Death by Story\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563724566808,"sku":"9780813593647","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/undead-ends-stories-of-apocalypse-paperback-softback-9780813593647","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}