Art in the Pre-Apocalypse

A video on YouTube. In Video Essays, a Krater category.

Summary by Krater

This video essay explores the theme of pre-apocalyptic fiction across several media works, focusing on how stories handle the inevitable end of the world through the lens of catastrophe, hope, and survival.

From the video

Answers: What do stories about the pre-apocalypse tell us about our relationship with impending world-ending events?

Pre-apocalyptic fiction
Final Fantasy XVI boss battles
On the Beach novel and film analysis
Umurangi Generation game critique
How to Blow Up a Pipeline political theory and film adaptation

What it concludes

Pre-apocalyptic stories force characters and readers to grapple with impending doom while continuing to live their daily lives.
Works like On the Beach and Umurangi Generation use pre-apocalyptic settings to explore the weight of knowing an unpreventable end is coming.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline shifts the focus from passive despair to active, radical resistance against systemic climate collapse.

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