Science Fiction Disaster

Science fiction films can tell a lot about how Americans think about the environment and the entanglements between them. Science Fiction and disaster films are not a unique phenomena in American cinema. These films are also in cultures that produce movies. Japan would be one of these cultures with the films like Godzilla and The Sinking of Japan. Movies provide an insight into what these people fear while also giving commentary as to what people think of the world. Ever since the 1950’s Science fiction has merged with disaster films. These films are more common in american cinema than natural disaster this is due to the high profits that they produce. Today’s Hollywood has recently produced a hybrid genre involving environmental disaster and science fiction. This disaster is either manmade or something that nature has produced. This production of disaster is the entanglement I’m referring too. These films show the constant struggle of man attempting to control nature and nature unwilling to be chained by man.Films have always adapted to what was going on at the time. These movies demonstrate how the Hollywood portrays the manifestation of environmental fears of Americans in science fiction films. In addition, these films provide a sense of hope because they are able to show people that they have the technology to overcome these pressing
Science Fiction continued to be a sub genre in Hollywood. This was due to the low profits they produced. During this early science fiction was limited to monster movies. The film industry made them because they knew monster movies were reliable moneymakers. In The Depression and Industry Finances, during the years of 1930-1933 cinema attendance decreased from 90 million to about 60 million viewers and as a result ticket sales were changed from 30 cents to 20 cents. Total company losses came to about $55 million dollars in