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In the first part of the paper, I will provide an overview of Eric Voegelin’s early thesis about Gnosis which he formulated in  The New Science of Politics  (1952) and  Science, Politics, and Gnosticism  (1968). A special attention will be paid to the idea of the immanentization of the eschaton which remains in the center of his argument. In the second part of the paper, I will analyze two Hollywood films in the light of Voegelin’s thesis:  Dark City  (1998) and  Pleasantville  (1998). Firstly, I will argue that the main characters depicted in the films can be classified as Gnostics in Voegelin’s sense. Secondly, I will demonstrate that their revolutionary acts reflect the idea of the immanentization of the eschaton.

Eric Voegelin and Gnostic Hollywood: Cinematic Portrayals of the Immanentization of the Eschaton in Dark City (1998) and Pleasantville (1998)