REL240.001
Portraits of the Apocalypse in Contemporary Film

Professor
Theodore Trost
ttrost@bama.ua.edu

Office: 206 Manly Hall
Office Phone: 348-7534
Office Hours: M 9:30-11:00
Course number: 47254
Course: W 3:00-5:30
Location: 207 Manly Hall

Dr. Trost's curriculum vitae (PDF)

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Description

The question of the end times has long fascinated people; this course examines its contemporary portrait in such films as Blade Runner, The Matrix, and The Left Behind. While these films constitute our basic "texts," conversations will be supplemented with careful readings from the biblical Book of Revelation and other scholarship.

Fall Syllabus 2008 (PDF)

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Readings

The Book of Revelation (PDF)

Collins (2) "Apocalyptic Imagination" (PDF)

Collins (3) "Crisis & Catharsis" (PDF)

Ostwald (4) "Movies and Aocalypse" (PDF)

Miles (5) "Older, Wiser, Stronger" (PDF)

Stone (6) "Fire in the Sky" (PDF)

Ostwald (7) "Hollywood & Armegeddon" (PDF)

Supplemental Material

Filmography (PDF)

Jones 1993 (1) daughters (PDF)

Gibbs 1993 (2) daughters (PDF)

McCoy 1999 (3) daughters (PDF)