Crisis and Rescuethe Cultural Representations of American and European Movies about Doomsday

Abstract

Since Maya predicted global warming, people have always been trying to use theology, science or pseudoscience to seek the proof for the end of the world. " Under the hype by the social media, the rumor of doomsday has become more popular. Compared with the obscure and plausible analyses in the media, movies have shown more direct and shocking descriptions and the salvation they depict is always a spiritual theme, no matter how the catastrophe ends or how serious crisis is.

Keywords:　Doomsday; Disaster; disaster film;

Contents

Abstract I

Contents I

Preface.......................................................................................................1

Introduction 4

1.The history of the late disaster film 4

2.The last day of the disaster film classification. 6

2.1Divide the end of the disaster with the type of disaster film............................7

2.1.1War doomsday disaster movie.........................................................................7

2.1.2Natural disaster doomsday disaster movie..............................................7

2.1.3Virus end of the disaster movie 8

2.1.4Alien creatures’ doomsday disaster movie 10

2.1.5Science and technology doomsday disaster film 10

2.2Divide the end of the film by film mode.........................................................11

2.2.1Doomsday disaster movie rescue mode....................................................... ..11

2.2.2Doomsday disaster movie escape pattern..............................................................11

2.2.3The reconstruction model of the late disaster film................................................12

3Doomsday disaster movie crisis and salvation..........................................................12

4 .Conclusion 13

References 14