Imagining survivalistic alternatives to nihilistic visions of doom in Roland Emmerich’s disaster films
Apocalyptic literature in popular culture today displays a tension between the nihilistic paralysis of the post-World War II period, and the pressing need to move forward existentially. The apocalypse genre functions as a platform for various current worldviews to converge, interact, and challenge e...
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| Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63111 |