
The Theme of Apocalypse in Australian Cinema
Author(s) -
Irina Anatolyevna Zvegintseva
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik74111-120
Subject(s) - movie theater , humanity , theme (computing) , world war ii , history , alien , aesthetics , art history , media studies , art , sociology , political science , law , computer science , archaeology , politics , citizenship , operating system
The article analyses the Australian apocalypse films. Apocalypse is often used as a synonym to the worlds end or a world scale catastrophe. The world knows hundreds of motion pictures of different talent and artistry, where the set takes place either before, during or after a global catastrophe. Reasons for the apocalypse vary: nuclear war, alien invasion, riot of the machines, a gigantic meteor, a disease unknown to science, etc. Nevertheless, the result always remains the same: humanity ceases to exist. Australian filmmakers, too, have not stood out of their foreign colleagues and made a large amount of films, that tell about the worlds end, out of which many are impressive and significant, indeed.