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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Main Author: | Lau, Song Leng |
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Other Authors: | Daniel Keith Jernigan |
Format: | Final Year Project |
Language: | English |
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2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63111 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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