The Religious Origin of Hollywood Movie with the Theme of Doomsday

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.164How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Doomsday; religion; disaster; Hollywood

Abstract

The end of the world is a recurring theme in the Hollywood disaster film, which criticized the expanding human greed, the control and manipulation of nature and the misunderstanding of technology. This paper presented that the end of the complex in the United States has a more profound religious origin. The basic narrative framework of Hollywood doomsday movie is doomsday, redemption and rebirth, which is consistent with the story of doomsday in the Bible. It was also found that there must be a hero to save the human beings in the disaster, and this kind of character is often based on the prototype of God. It can be concluded that in the field of culture and art, religious consciousness still has a strong influence on the western world.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yingjuan Shi
AU  - Xiao Yang
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - The Religious Origin of Hollywood Movie with the Theme of Doomsday
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 676
EP  - 678
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.164
DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.164
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