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  WALL-E and Utopia

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  Gerry Canavan Marquette University

  April 24, 2014

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  future back to the Earth they once ruined, and robot and human together begin the difficult process of ... a few scant minutes at least, becomes unfixed; the curse is lifted; another, better world is possible. ...
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  In Search of The End in On the Beach

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  Michael Suen Learning Games Network

  October 10, 2013

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  here the catastrophe has already happened before the story even begins. On the Beach is a speculative ... film's first scenes, navy lieutenant Peter Holmes begins his day by cheerfully preparing warm milk for ...
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  "Are you Out of Your Mind? No Ma'am...Are You?" Romero's Day of the Dead Challenging Reagan Era Ideology

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  Alexandra Nakelski zeitgeistfilmfest.org

  March 30, 2020

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  plague. However his totalitarian tendencies mark the beginning of the end. And finally, in context of the ...
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  Fantasizing our End through Film

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  Sheila Kunkle Metropolitan State University

  March 25, 2013

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  Fantasizing our End through Film virtual subjects fantasy Apocalypse Curator's Note The two clips I’ve selected here come from two very different films (Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, 1977 and the final scene of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, 2011), but th ...