Cinema Apocalyptica
Five explorations by Ian Christie of how cinema has continued the literary and visual tradition of apocalypse, reflecting the 20th-century's own history of catastrophe and its search for meaning in an increasingly secular world through a variety of forms, both traditional and innovative.
4: First and Last Things. Since the sixties, popular cinema has produced a number of millennial epics that trace the destruction and rebirth of civilisations. The best known of these are Miller's Mad Max and Romero's Dead trilogy. These draw freely on apocalyptic traditions of prophecy and salvation, and on popular interest in mythology, environmentalism and the occult.