Gems from the canon of Norman Rockwell, whose depictions of post-war America still conjure nostalgia for a seemingly simpler, more optimistic time, are bound for the auction block at Sotheby's in New York.
Those who find themselves attracted to the Brooklyn bohemia of Lena Dunham's "Girls" but who can't understand why its gritty depictions of post-collegiate reality have to be quite so gritty might want to distract themselves instead with "Brooklyn Girls" (St. Martin's Griffin, $14.99), a sassy summer confection by the young novelist and screenwriter Gemma Burgess.
From TV adverts to Hollywood movies, depictions of post-apocalyptic worlds are everywhere.
The depictions of post-human worlds with their decaying civilizations and architectural ruins are not necessarily apocalyptic from the viewpoint of the animals that thrive in this future.
Such concretizing of metaphor is widespread, particularly in depictions of post-mortem experience, which capitalize on popular, fanciful notions about the nature of heaven and hell -- clouds, wings, haloes, harps and white robes on the one side; fire, horned red devils with tails, heat, and grief on the other.
* Threads – 1984 cold war drama imagining a nuclear attack on Britain shocked viewers with its bleak depiction of post-apocalypse life.
'Victoria Street' is an enigmatic depiction of post-war Manchester and its inhabitants and a remarkable image in its own right.
Absurdistan was divided into two main sections: a hilarious but not too exaggerated depiction of post-Soviet St Petersburg, and a more Swiftian coda in a fictitious post-Soviet state.
(DeWitt) 'Septimus and Clarissa' (in previews; opens on Thursday) Departing from her recent terrain of Greek tragedy, Ellen McLaughlin adapts Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway," coaxing out the antiwar sentiments in its depiction of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Its narrative is split between a realistic depiction of post-war Scotland – from the viewpoint of art-school student Duncan Thaw – and the city of Unthank, a sunless, heartless vision of a future Glasgow where an epidemic of uncanny illnesses afflicts the citizenry – including some people's slow transformation into dragons.
Teenager Fatima Abdelhafeez reacted strongly to the film's depiction of post-9/11 bigotry against Muslim Americans.
