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Evolutionary ideas in US apocalypses culture

PII
S0236-20070000616-8-1
DOI
10.7868/S70000616-8-1
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Volume/ Edition
Volume / Issue 4
Pages
78-87
Abstract
Cultural sources and specifics of nowadays American apocalypses culture, that is a massive of literary and cinematographic texts on the Dooms day, are considered. The author notes close interlacing of traditional European plots, both apocalyptic and lore, with modern scientific ideas. The authors of the books and films give some scientific motivation even for emerging of vampires and zombie that are quite prolific in such texts. The connection between many apocalypses culture images, on the one hand, and modern evolutionary and environmentalist ideas on the other.
Keywords
SCIENCE FICTION, EVOLUTIONISM, DOOMS DAY, ENVIRONMENTALISM
Date of publication
01.08.2011
Year of publication
2011
Number of purchasers
1
Views
1153

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