The Theme of Apocalypse in Australian Cinema

Abstract

The article analyses the Australian “apocalypse” films. “Apocalypse” is often used as a synonym to the world’s end or a world scale catastrophe. The world knows hundreds of motion pictures of different talent and artistry, where the set takes place either before, during or after a global catastrophe. Reasons for the apocalypse vary: nuclear war, alien invasion, riot of the machines, a gigantic meteor, a disease unknown to science, etc. Nevertheless, the result always remains the same: humanity ceases to exist. Australian filmmakers, too, have not stood out of their foreign colleagues and made a large amount of films, that tell about the world’s end, out of which many are impressive and significant, indeed.