{"617680":{"#nid":"617680","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Genesis of the Apocalypse: Movies of 2018","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/dina-khapaeva\u0022\u003EDina Khapaeva\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor at\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Modern Languages, recently wrote an article entitled \u0026ldquo;The Genesis of the Apocalypse: Movies of 2018\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDiscover Society.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThinking about the similarities between the 2018 movies featured on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/ls058813655\/\u0022\u003EIMDb list\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, what stands out, aside from the overall prevalence of violence and horror? Apocalypse is clearly the theme that runs through the most acclaimed movies of the year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat makes the secular apocalypse so trendy? Could the mounting popularity of the apocalyptic genre in the 2000s be rationalized as an expression of political and social anxieties, such as environmental problems, world peace insecurity, terrorism etc.? However important, these explanations overlook the cultural factors that may explain the fixation on apocalypse of the millions of readers and viewers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/discoversociety.org\/2019\/02\/06\/the-genesis-of-the-apocalypse-movies-of-2018\/\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Modern Languages\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-02-12 16:55:11","changed_gmt":"2019-02-12 16:55:11","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"preparing to apply","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/discoversociety.org\/2019\/02\/06\/the-genesis-of-the-apocalypse-movies-of-2018\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"441101":{"id":"441101","type":"image","title":"Dina Khapaeva","body":null,"created":"1449256190","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:50","changed":"1539024312","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 18:45:12","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Dina Khapaeva","file":{"fid":"203074","name":"dinakhapaevaweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":34304,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg?itok=WXfe7j-L"}}},"media_ids":["441101"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"33421","name":"Dina Khapaeva"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}