End time film
The end-time film (also apocalypse film or post-apocalyptic film ) is a subgenre of science fiction film in which the world order by a global catastrophe is radically changed. The genre emerged in the 1950s after the experiences of World War II and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made a worldwide catastrophe appear possible.
characterization
In contrast to dystopia , which describes the deterioration of social conditions, the end-time film creates drastic, apocalyptic or grotesque doomsday scenarios as extreme cases of dystopia. Genre overlaps are particularly characteristic with the horror film and disaster film . In addition to the global catastrophe ( nuclear catastrophe , natural disaster , pandemic ), civilization problems as a result of world wars or social developments are also a recurring motif. Here, the striking cut of a catastrophe is missing, instead the conditions are the result of constant development. It is characterized by an “organized” chaos , for example in The Last Man on Earth (1964), Mad Max (1979), MARK 13 - Hardware (1990), Waterworld (1995) or Children of Men (2006). End-time disaster films are characterized by a “before” and a “after”. Either established, new forms of organization exist or the adapted forms of society are only just emerging, see A Boy and His Dog (1975), Malevil (1981), Quiet Earth (1985), 28 Days Later (2002) or The Day After Tomorrow (2004). The Russian end-of- life film Letters of a Dead (1986) focuses on the everyday life of the few survivors after a nuclear war.
See also
literature
- Hans Krah: Doomsday scenarios and future drafts. Narratives of the “end” in literature and film 1945–1990 . Ludwig, Kiel 2004, ISBN 3-933598-91-5 .
- Ralf Leppin: The post-nuclear vision of the end of the 1980s in film . Teiresias, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-9804380-4-X .
- Margit Fröhlich et al. (Ed.): After the end. Dissolution and decline in the cinema at the turn of the millennium . Schüren, Marburg 2001.
- Charles P. Mitchell: A Guide to Apocalyptic Cinema . Greenwood Press, London 2001.
- Jan-Christoph Müller: The bomb and the camera. Tobias Nanz and Johannes Pause bring together contributions to the nuclear "world fire" in the cinema . Literaturkritik.de, April 2016
- Jerome F. Shapiro: Atomic Bomb Cinema. The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film . Taylor and Francis, London 2002.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nils Borstnar, Eckhard Pabst, Hans Jürgen Wulff: Introduction to Film and Television Studies , Uni-Taschenbücher GmbH Stuttgart, p. 76.
- ^ Philipp Brunner: End times vision . In: Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, edited by Hans. J. Wulff and Theo Bender
- ^ Philipp Brunner, Ludger Kaczmarek: Dystopia in the history of film . In: Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, edited by Hans. J. Wulff and Theo Bender
- ↑ Hans Krah: Apocalypse Films . In: Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, edited by Hans. J. Wulff and Theo Bender