Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world Cover Image

Ljubav u doba postapokalipse – načini zamišljanja ljubavi nakon kraja sveta
Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world

Author(s): Ana Banić Grubišić
Subject(s): Anthropology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: cultural ideas about love; movies about the post-apocalypse; imagining the future

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with ways of representing love and amorous relationships in post-apocalyptic movies. In these movies, there is a dualism of romantic and partner love, and these two types of love are there to help build a new world, or rebuild the destroyed society. These images of love emphasize the importance of evolutionist theories for the central ideas of these films – in post-apocalyptic scenarios love mostly serves the purpose of having or protecting progeny, it is represented as the key tool and mechanism of survival.

  • Issue Year: 10/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 55-74
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian