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Apocalyptic Fiction
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Apocalyptic Fiction
Activity
The Genre
Find a short (no more than 8 minutes) apocalyptic film on Youtube.
Watch the film, then write a paragraph explaining the conventions of apocalyptic fiction that you saw in the film.
Post the link to your film and a photograph of your paragraph to the class page on Edmodo.
- sub-genre of science fiction
- deals with the end of civilisation as a result of a catastrophe, such as:
- nuclear warfare
- pandemic/plague
- extra-terrestrial attack
- asteroid impact
- divine judgment
- extreme climate change (e.g. The Day After Tomorrow)
- zombie apocalypse
- post-apocalyptic fiction explores the psychology of the survivors and the aftermath of the catastrophe.
Plot
Themes
- permanent disruption of the previous order.
- wandering through the rubble as the characters learn to survive without the tools of civilisation that they previously took for granted.
- daily struggle to survive.
- irony
- survival
- resilience
- relationships
- power
- war
- often frightens an audience into changing behaviour.
- technology, or lack thereof.
Setting/Context
- sense that the place is inescapable.
- economic disruption
- dystopian
- isolated
- clear correlation between our current setting and the setting in the text.
- combination of the familiar often repurposed or changed into something unexpected.
Characters
- lack of control
- ethical/moral dilemmas
- breakdown of traditional power structures.
- gradual degredation of society's values.
- focuses on a small group of survivors.
- changing nature of trust.
- emotional desensitisation.
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