Embracing the Apocalypse

Abstract

Visions of the apocalypse where somehow humans survive to witness the event. Religious apocalypticism and ``the rapture.'' Global warming and the end of the Earth. In defense of a depeopled planet. Prophecies of the end times. Eco-tainment, and the world restored to its natural state. The extinction of mankind as a desired outcome. The imagination of disaster. ``Speciesism,'' or the supposed supremacy of humankind. Communication in animals. The films Red Desert and Safe as ecological narratives. The films Martyrs and La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc; torture and the reality of faith.