
World Gone Wild
A Survivor's Guide to Post-Apocalyptic Movies
David J. Moore(Author)
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Published on 28. June 2014
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-7643-4587-6 (ISBN)
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Description
A loving ode to a universal genre of film. An entire subculture of end-of-the-world themes was spawned from films like The Road Warrior, Escape From New York, and The Terminator. While those films are still being emulated today, film makers all around the world continue to produce radically unique films with startling perspectives of humanity facing the end of all things. This book offers pointers and a frame of reference on how the characters behaved when their worlds were on the brink of desolation. It covers the genre's biggest blockbusters like The Hunger Games, I Am Legend, Oblivion, and World War Z, while devoting equal time and attention to smaller, more obscure films that really deserve to be discovered. Containing over 800 movie reviews, 60 exclusive interviews with filmmakers and actors who've made films in the genre, and a vast subgenre index, World Gone Wild is a chronicle of humanity's struggles through nuclear war, global natural disasters, and the zombie apocalypse in film.
Reviews / Votes
Quite frankly this is a guide book that fans of the sub-genre really need just for the sake of finding films out there that they may not have seen before. That someone out there has managed to not only see all of these but catalogue them in this amount of detail is a film-buffs dream come true. Anything even remotely end of the world related gets a look in. And not just high budget, or 80s Mad Max rip offs, but all of the low brow titles you are likely to have never heard of down through the past few decades get covered (yes Albert Pyun fans he even gets his own index). Its amazing that even in the pages that have A-Z lists that they still find space for colour photos to keep you leafing through, staving off any boredom the eye might find. This is a real film nerds collectors item written by one, for the many. This is time well spent on a great book! Steven Hurst, Filmwerk.co.uk June 2015More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Atglen
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
427 color photos
Dimensions
Height: 287 mm
Width: 222 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1706 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7643-4587-6 (9780764345876)
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Persons
david j. moore has written articles for Fangoria, Filmfax, Ultra Violent, VideoScope, Lunchmeat, Flickering Myth, and L'Ecran Fantastique. Interviews he's conducted can be found on OutlawVern.com. He lives in Rancho Cucamonga, California.