Word: apocalypticism
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Rosenblatt's article was good, but I hardly believe that in 1997 people were driven by "apocalyptic, fin-de-siecle anxieties about the approaching millennium." It is true that people get touchy when encountering the finale of a century, and even more so at the end of a millennium, but...
Titanic has averted disaster at the box office, but at least one of Hollywood's big holiday pictures has rammed a major iceberg: KEVIN COSTNER'S apocalyptic drama The Postman. The $80 million epic, which spent only one week among the 10 top-grossing films, will struggle to earn $20...
THE POSTMAN Video-store bait: Kevin Costner's movie about post-apocalyptic America sinks like a stone
Why does Kevin Costner keep doing these post-apocalyptic flicks? Is it because he still owns a pair of Waterworld goggles that would otherwise go to waste? Or does he just love creating scenarios wherein women inquire about the quality of his semen?
The frustration-with-detachment theory may sound more plausible than the apocalyptic, but is only slightly more down to earth. From the mid-1970s on, there has been an increasing disengagement of people from government, politics, community and, in some ways, from themselves; moreover, this disengagement has been actively sought...