| LC control no. | gf2014026225 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Apocalyptic drama |
| Variant(s) | Doomsday drama End-of-the-world drama Post-apocalyptic drama Post-apocalyptic science fiction drama Postapocalyptic drama Postapocalyptic science fiction drama |
| See also | Science fiction plays |
| Scope note | Plays set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. For plays set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., see Dystopian plays. |
| Subject example tracing | Note under Dystopian plays |
| Found in | Plays and playwrights, 2010, c2010: table of contents (Any day now : an apocalyptic family drama in three acts / Nat Cassidy) Carpenter, C.A. Dramatists and the bomb : American and British playwrights confront the nuclear age, 1945-1964, 1999: table of contents (Ridenour's apocalyptic playlet and its adaptation; Laski's neglected post-holocaust drama, The offshore island; Hansberry's post-holocaust fable, What use are flowers?; Bradbury's post-holocaust parable, To the Chicago abyss) Raben, E.M. Major strategies in twentieth-century drama : apocalyptic vision, allegory, and open form, 1989. LCGFT, Oct. 24, 2014 (Apocalyptic films. This heading is used as a genre/form heading for films set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. Films set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., are entered under Dystopian films. UF Doomsday films; End-of-the-world films; Post-apocalyptic films; Post-apocalyptic science fiction films; Postapocalyptic films; Postapocalyptic science fiction films) Google, March 6, 2015: ("apocalyptic drama" not "film" or "movie": 2,480 hits; "apocalyptic plays" not "film" or "movie": 1,210 hits) |
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