Postmodern theological speech over the post-apocalyptic cinema. Cover Image

Discours de théologie postmoderne dans le cinéma post-apocalyptique. Pour une contemplation de la destruction
Postmodern theological speech over the post-apocalyptic cinema.

Author(s): Daniel S. LARANGÉ
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Teatru si Televiziune
Keywords: post-apocalyptical film; postmodern theology; contemplation of the destruction; eschatological film

Summary/Abstract: In cinema, the post-apocalyptic landscape puts emphases on the roads, highways, streets, avenues empty as deserts. The traces of humanity are gradually erased by the return of the nature, because the inherently destructive human nature has taken on the human cultural efforts to dominate. While the secularization of faith has cleared the promise of the imminence of the eschatology, from the post-apocalyptic emerged a faith without hope which lives in a blind walk through the Bardo Thödol. Highways along which focus the latter stages of civilization are metaphors of inner quest to turn back time and return to the origins by retrospection.

  • Issue Year: 08/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 35-46
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French