Post-Apocalypse Now: Globalism, Posthumanism, and the ‘Imagination of Disaster’
Post-Apocalypse Now: Globalism, Posthumanism, and the ‘Imagination of Disaster’
Author(s): Adriana-Cecilia NeaguSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: Dystopia; apocalypticism; 9/11; cinema; global order; Zombyism; global theory; hypermodernity; disjuncture.
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines post-apocalyptic representations in American film productions from a perspective informed by global and hypermodern cultural theory. It is an enquiry into aspects of dystopian sensibility in global cinema seen as manifest in several prominent genres of the post-apocalyptic strand.
Journal: Transylvanian Review
- Issue Year: XXVI/2017
- Issue No: Suppl 2
- Page Range: 237-246
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English