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The volume explores contemporary and historical films about "marked women" in various national cinema traditions. The essays focus on the depictions of prostitution and promiscuity in visual media from Silent Film in America to Weimar Cinema in Germany, the Golden Years in Hol...

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Apart from well-established Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there is a new wave of zombie narratives and independent films about Armageddon that were released around the predicted Maya calendar's apocalypse in 2012. This volume offers an overview of t...

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This collection analyzes how their disciplines can add unique depth and context to many of the themes that are being mobilized in Atwoods The Handmaids Tale and its screen adaptations. Contributors address how these themes apply to social issues and specific topics such as science and religion to the role of journalism in a democratic society.