Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world

The paper deals with ways of representing love and amorous relationships in post-apocalyptic movies. In these movies, there is a dualism of romantic and partner love, and these two types of love are there to help build a new world, or rebuild the destroyed society. These images of love emphasize the...

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Main Author: Ana Banić-Grubišić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Belgrade 2016-02-01
Series:Etnoantropološki Problemi
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Online Access:https://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/5
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spelling doaj-1c52a01939214dc5a88470b54d5cb39a2020-11-24T20:57:42ZengUniversity of BelgradeEtnoantropološki Problemi 0353-15892334-88012016-02-0110110.21301/EAP.V10.I1.3Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the worldAna Banić-Grubišić0Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Faculty of Philosophy University of BelgradeThe paper deals with ways of representing love and amorous relationships in post-apocalyptic movies. In these movies, there is a dualism of romantic and partner love, and these two types of love are there to help build a new world, or rebuild the destroyed society. These images of love emphasize the importance of evolutionist theories for the central ideas of these films – in post-apocalyptic scenarios love mostly serves the purpose of having or protecting progeny, it is represented as the key tool and mechanism of survival.https://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/5cultural ideas about lovemovies about the post-apocalypseimagining the future
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Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world
Etnoantropološki Problemi
cultural ideas about love
movies about the post-apocalypse
imagining the future
author_facet Ana Banić-Grubišić
author_sort Ana Banić-Grubišić
title Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world
title_short Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world
title_full Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world
title_fullStr Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world
title_full_unstemmed Love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world
title_sort love in the time of the post-apocalypse – ways of imagining love after the end of the world
publisher University of Belgrade
series Etnoantropološki Problemi
issn 0353-1589
2334-8801
publishDate 2016-02-01
description The paper deals with ways of representing love and amorous relationships in post-apocalyptic movies. In these movies, there is a dualism of romantic and partner love, and these two types of love are there to help build a new world, or rebuild the destroyed society. These images of love emphasize the importance of evolutionist theories for the central ideas of these films – in post-apocalyptic scenarios love mostly serves the purpose of having or protecting progeny, it is represented as the key tool and mechanism of survival.
topic cultural ideas about love
movies about the post-apocalypse
imagining the future
url https://eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/5
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