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Post‐Apocalypse Now
Author(s) -
Fisher Mark
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1136
Subject(s) - movie theater , capitalism , theme (computing) , aesthetics , sociology , history , art history , media studies , law , art , political science , computer science , politics , world wide web
In cinema, the post‐apocalypse has become a recurring theme offering endless opportunities to envisage and keep on reimagining the end of the world as we know it. Here Mark Fisher explores the post‐apocalyptic in Children of Men (2006), The Road (2006) and Terminator Salvation (2009), and asks whether these seminal films point towards a tendency to imagine the end of existence over the end of capitalism. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.