From: Casey Pegram (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 20:25:01 PST
In an unconventional way, Godard's King Lear is a post-apocalyptic
film with William Shakespeare, Jr. the Fifth trying to reconstruct the
Bard's work after the Chernobyl meltdown. Arguably you could include
Godard's earlier film Weekend as well.
For video games, I'll plug my personal favorite, the Fallout series,
with particular emphasis on the first two. If your students are
interested, I highly recommend the second installment. Fallout 3 was
released this past year and was pretty good as well, but 2 is the
undisputed classic in my opinion.
For a documentary about the real Chernobyl disaster, Chernobyl Heart
and Pripyat are both well worth viewing.
Casey
On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:35 AM, Margaret Jamieson wrote:
> Hi List:
>
> I'm teaching a class on apocalypse films and would welcome any
> suggestions, especially: shorter films, experimental films, non-
> fiction, international films, and other platforms, like games or
> installations. The premise of the course is to follow the anxieties
> of culture through apocalypse films, and the readings go from
> Boccaccio to Wheeler Winston Dixon, and the films from Birth of a
> Nation to Bruce Connor (with, rest assured, lots of aliens in
> between), so I'm very open to ideas.
>
> Thank you for your generosity, as always--MJ
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