Icônes de la fin. Images apocalyptiques, filmographie, mythes

The idea of ​​the "end" seems to evoke a tangle of contradictions: whether it's the individual end we call death, or the collective end that in Western tradition takes the symbolic form of the Apocalypse or the real forms of catastrophe, this event cannot truly be "thought." Where thought stops, images arise. And it is a vast and lush forest of images that today, with the crisis of modernity—the grand scheme encompassing ecological, economic, and political crises—is forcefully coming to the fore. The "icons of the end" occupy those spaces of the imagination that increasingly coincide with the myths of mass culture, cinema, and popular narratives. From the Titanic to Apocalypse Now, from The Day After to Count Dracula and Frankenstein, all the way to the Mummy and the various Zombies and Vampires, a journey through the images of the individual and collective apocalypse that populate the human mind.