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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"post-apocalyptic"”.
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Constituting the monster inside: Ideological effects of post-apocalyptic depictions in The Walking Dead
… has to say regarding survival behavior in a post-apocalyptic world. TWD's plot focuses primarily on the relationships between survivor characters situated among the crumbling remains of society and humanity. An attempt is made to show how TWD (1) establishes a common ideology among its …
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The Imagined After: Re-Positioning Social Memory Through Twentieth-Century Post-Apocalyptic Literature and Film
… remember the past to the extent they once did. Post-apocalyptic literature and film intervene by addressing the heightened anxiety people feel regarding the changing experience of memory. This project examines how such unique narrative provide the necessary spaces through which to better …
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‘Return to roots’: an examination of the re-presentations of rurality within post-apocalyptic survival video games
Post-apocalyptic survival (PAS) themed video games provide a virtual world that re-presents the realities of current society. Current studies have examined the existence of game culture (Aldred & Greenspan, 2011; Atkins, 2006; Kücklich, 2006), but limited analysis has focused on how these cultures …
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Trancending meaninglessness : seeking the meaning of life in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of J. Crace and C. McCarthy
… explores the lack of meaning put forward in the post-apocalyptic scenarios of Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Meaninglessness is analysed on a theoretical level in terms of evil. The thrust of the argument is that when approached in the appropriate manner, the dichotomy …
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Thresholds
… the transformations of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world.</p>
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"Nightfall"
… of stories and an uncompleted novel focusing on post-apocalyptic cultural studies.</p>
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The virtual-musical other: creating unique worlds through musical sound in videogames
The post-apocalypse is a narrative context that focuses on the destruction and rebirth of civilization, society, and culture. Familiar signs are mixed with the unfamiliar to create something new, a unique post-apocalyptic Other as the decontextualization, recontextualization, and resignification of …
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No time and no place in Japan’s queer popular culture
… present in these texts, both of which have post-apocalyptic settings, acts as a vehicle for queer narratives in Japanese popular culture. Additionally, I argue that queerness present in fanworks similarly benefits from this out of place and time-ness, both within the work as post-apocalyptic …
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Panspermia
… middle point offer a character-driven look at a post-apocalyptic world, showing how those involved cope with the loss of technology (in direct comparison to the loss of loved ones) and how that impacts their worldview. Though post-apocalyptic tales have saturated the current market, the focus for …
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Reflections of Fear: Mass Hysteria in Cold War Cinema 1946-1991
… the 1980’s with the fear of World War III and a post-apocalyptic world. This thesis will look at how these fears were reflected in the movies that were being produced. I will first look at the 1950’s with the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a reflection of the mass fear or hysteria …
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Wandering into the Wasteland: White American Masculinities in the Apocalyptic Science Fiction Road Narrative
… of American white male subjects within the apocalyptic science fiction road narrative, focusing on two visual media in which this genre hybrid features prominently: film and comics. The study builds upon an embryonic body of scholarship addressing several structural, iconographic and …
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Songs On the Water: Stories
… rampaging, or eviscerated language in a post-apocalyptic vignette--to examine themes of community, history, and faith. Linking them all is the lake, which binds them geographically and becomes a symbol of their many different lives, all flowing together from the primordial, swampy …
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How to build a home for the end of the World
… desert hippies. Formulated as a case history of post apocalyptic times, How To Build a Home for the End of the World investigates the ways in which people understand memory, healing, and redemption in the throes of of ever-unraveling crisis.
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Shrap[no]babble
… also delving into hope-punk, urban fantasy, and post-apocalyptic fiction. Character-driven narratives are at the heart of these tales, which are crafted with lyrical, literary prose to create an engaging reading experience. By experimenting with various speculative fiction genres and narrative …
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Give me that old time religion: reclaiming slave religion in the future
… story of a young visionary, Lauren Olamina, in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Lauren, the fifteen year old daughter of a black Baptist minister, reveals a religious philosophy called Earthseed as a means of helping her community deal with their circumstances; the community has been burned and …
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Marisol By Jose RIvera: Scenic Design
… the early nineteen nineties and transforms to a post apocalyptic environment and a world turned upside down. I created a space in the round that uses raw metals and concrete to symbolize the location through simple line and shape. The set is purely realistic at its core and dissipates into a …
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Of Minutemen and Boomers: Fallout and Doing History in Imagined Space
… Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks. Set in a post-apocalyptic future yet steeped in 1950s American ideals, Fallout merges historical fiction with sci-fi fantasy, exploring themes of American exceptionalism, hyper-Capitalism, anti-communism, nuclear anxiety, and militarism through exaggerated …
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Loggerhead Ruse: An Immersive and Devised Theatrical Piece Using Audience Agency Within a Theatrical Story to Increase Theatre Engagement in America
… devised theatrical experience set in a post-apocalyptic world, where trust is a dangerous gamble. As a devised piece, the story is built collaboratively by the ensemble, guided by the director’s vision and thematic specificity. As an immersive production, the audience is fully surrounded …
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Undefinitive
… forging new modes of existence.</p> <p>Set in a post-apocalyptic world where consciousness inhabits non-human forms, Undefinitive tells a queer love story between a moth and an orchid at the dusk of the human era. Using text as the foundation for worldbuilding, I construct a fragmented …
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Laughing in the Wrong Places: Daniel Clowes and the Danger of Nostalgia
… essay, placing my narrative voice in a fictional post-apocalyptic scenario. I did this because I am a fiction writer and this position felt natural, but also I wanted to emphasize the real stakes facing the United States in our upcoming election. In this essay, I focus on blending visual and …
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