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Visions of the apocalypse where somehow humans survive to witness the event. Religious apocalypticism and “the rapture.” Global warming and the end of the Earth. In defense of a depeopled planet. Prophecies of the end times. Eco-tainment, and the world restored to its natural state. The extinction of mankind as a desired outcome. The imagination of disaster. “Speciesism,” or the supposed supremacy of humankind. Communication in animals. The films Red Desert and Safe as ecological narratives. The films Martyrs and La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc; torture and the reality of faith.
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© 2014 Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
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Foster, G.A. (2014). Embracing the Apocalypse. In: Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137468086_4
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