Since the beginning of the century, American films have explored stories of the apocalypse as commentary on our own modern challenges. Stories of the horrors science can create when man tries to play God lurk beneath the most popular zombie shows and in the cool futuristic sci-fi of super humans. These stories are equal parts inspiration and warning–a look over the cliff over science to the abyss of possibility that lies ahead of us. These stories, in turn, look into us, into our longing to be stronger, more powerful and to live forever.
In Apocalyptic America, we’ve been looking at the questions posed to us by the modern world that we live in–advances in science, new technologies and a host of problems caused by the postindustrial human condition–and the answers film gives us. Apocalyptic movies allow us to seen through a glass darkly at a world that awaits us as…
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