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Volume 7 (2025)

Issue 1: Faith After the End — How Apocalyptic Worlds Turn to Belief

• Everything is Not Awesome: Biblical Allegory and the Apocalyptic Imagination in The Lego Movie (2014) by Sivakumar Abhayaa
• Have Mercer on Us: The Faith of Suffering in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Angel Lim
• Not a Cautionary Tale: The Unanswerable Question in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”(1966) by Annie Du

Issue 2: Love in the Apocalypse

• Love in Roland Emmerich’s Disaster Cinema and How It Mirrors Societal Trajectory by Nguyen Mai Trang
• Hodaka’s Choice: Personal Love vs the Collective in Weathering with You (2019) by Cerys Leck
• The Infinite within the Finite: Reading Interstellar (2014) through Martin Hägglund’s This Life by Tan Yu Xuan
• Cargo (2017): Love Beyond Blood, Love Beyond Death by Truong Kim Mai

Issue 3: Apocalypse and the Non-Physical Power of Superheroes

• Rethinking Heroism in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) by Divya Shah
• The Reconstruction of Hope in Spider-Verse Films by Too Charisse
• Batman’s Symbolism of Hope in The Dark Knight (2008) by Malcolm Ng
• Samurai Jack (2001-2017) and the Pedagogy of Hope by Lim Lyn-Zhou
• Redefining What “Super” is in Superhero, Akira as a Transformative Enabler in Zom100: Bucket List of the Dead (2023) by Zhong Baode

Volume 6 (2022)

Issue 1: What is Lost and What Remains: Perspectives of a New World

• The Necessity of Apocalyptic Destruction: Hope and Renewal in the Book of Revelation and Völuspá by Austin Ho
• Segmenting, Segregating and Separating: The Persistence of Social Borders Through Time in Cloud Atlas by Jessica Wu
• Affluence in a Post Apocalyptic World: The Power of Wealth as Social Structures in Snowpiercer and Train to Busan by Jason Lee
• One Man’s Trash is Another Robot’s Treasure: Exploring Garbage as a Symbol of Hope for the Recovery of a Post-Apocalyptic World in WALL-E by Muhammad Asy’raf

Issue 2: Asian Approaches to Apocalyptic Inequality

• National Service and the ‘Chao Keng Virus’ by Brenna Kau
• Portrayal of Female Infanticide in Bollywood by Cavan Tay
• Capitalism and Class Inequality in Netflix’s Squid Game by Darren Ang
• The ‘Ustopia’ of Social Inequality in Squid Game and Parasite by Vritee Muni

Issue 3: From Pandemic to Apocalypse

• The Zombie Pandemic in Hollywood: Portrayals of Outbreak and Survival in Night of the Living Dead and World War Z by Lynette Teo
• Notion of Civil Liberties in World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and Outbreak by Faith Lee
• Reconciling Societies through the Domination of Authority over Public in the Pandemic: Contagion and Flu by Kyi Cin Thet

Issue 4: Laughing at Death: The Usage of Comedy in the Apocalypse

• Apocalyptic Humour: The Usage of Comedy in The Cabin in The Woods by Mohamed Hirwan Shah
• Wall-E’s Wondrous World by Julian Ong
• Chaos of Comedy and Horror: Undefined Viewership and Perceptions of the Comedic and Horrific Elements in Gravity Falls by Anushka Ashirgade
• The Unlikely Hero: How Humour Works in the Hero’s Favour in Love and Monsters by Jolene Joan You

Issue 5: Heroism in the Apocalypse

• Humanised Heroism in Avengers: Endgame by Teo Wei Ming
• The Overlooked Heroism of Humanity in WALL-E by Tan Hui Xuan Valerie
• The Exceptionalism of Apocalyptic Heroines in Feng Ce Chang An by Shannen Koh Ying Xuan
• Collective Heroism in The Wandering Earth vs Individual Heroism in Interstellar: A false dichotomy between two non-concepts? by Danie Xu

Issue 6: Human Agency and the End

• Capitalism and Science Denialism – Parallels between Climate Crisis and Don’t Look Up (2021) by Carrie Tan
• Male and Female Agency in Train to Busan (2016) and its Applications to the Real World by Grace Lim An Hwee
• How Agency Relates to the Different Resolutions of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place and Susanne Bier’s Bird Box by Aeron Toh Kay Shen
• Subverting the Superhero-Non-Superhero Divide in Avengers: Endgame by Quek Rui Chin

Volume 5 (2021)

Issue 1: The Human Condition in the Apocalypse

• Appearance and Acceptance: How the Human Face brings about Social Acceptance in Alita: Battle Angel by Eila Trenel
• Knowledge and Deviance: How the Individuals’ Rationalization of Knowledge Prompts Different Responses in The Giver by Ashley Low
• Identities and Extremism: How Changing Landscapes and Realities Foster Radicalisation in Attack on Titan by Ellie Zhang
• Power and Morality: How Power Instability Corrupts the Line of Morality in Altered Carbon by Matthew Elmer Ken

Issue 2: Nonhuman Agency in the Apocalypse

• An Infinite Amount of Hope, but Not for Us: Posthumanism and Beautiful Post-apocalyptic Landscapes in The Last of Us by Mah Xiao Yu
• The Passive Protagonist: Assessing the Agency of Trains as Opposed to the Human Protagonist Within the Narrative of Train to Busan by Sum Hung Yee
• Human and Nonhuman Agency in WALL-E: The Role of Posthumanism in the Resolution of the Post-apocalyptic Crisis by Chong Shin Ee
• Reimagining (Human) Nature in the Apocalypse: Negotiating Agency through Posthumanism in Mockingjay by Rachel Eng

Issue 3: Senses in the Apocalypse

• “If You Look, You Will Die. Do You Understand?” – Examining What it Means to Not See in Bird Box (2018) by Ashley How Kai Xin
• Survival of the “Fittest”: Examining the Blurred Dichotomy Between the Abled and Disabled in A Quiet Place (2018) by Yan Ng Xuan Min, Gail
• Fixing or Embracing Disability: The Establishment of the New Normalcy in the Discourse of the Crip Theory by He Ziqi
• A World Without Sense: Emotional Responses to the Sensory Apocalypse in Perfect Sense (2011) by Tan Enn Syn, Shona

Issue 4: Exploring Neo-Apocalyptic Narratives

• The Allegory in The Maze Runner by Wong Zhi Min, Olivia
• Categorization of Watchmen (2009) in the Apocalyptic and Neo-apocalyptic Narratives by Chen Runfeng
• The Experience of Social Stigma Beyond Racism: A Critical Analysis of Detroit: Become Human by Sing Wei En Wayne
• ‘Sacred Truths’ and Power in Snowpiercer (2020) and The Village (2004) by Eunice Tan En Hui Paa
• Self and Other in Sweet Home: Beauty in Korean Society by Pang Ji Xuan
• Is Humanity Inherently Good?: An Analysis of Human Nature in the Planet of the Apes trilogy (2011 – 2017) by Bharathkumar Sriram

Issue 5: The Japanese Apocalypse

• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995): From Armageddon to Instrumentality, Japanese Anxiety Through The Hikikomori by Wong Zhi Wei
• Down the Rabbit Hole: The Strength of Ikigai in Transforming Characters in Alice in Borderland by Shermaine Lee
• The Japanese Perspective on Self-Preservation and Self-Sacrifice by Desiree Wee
• Vocaloid Songs: Being Vocal about Disapproving Collectivistic Traditional Values by Chan Xue Hong
• The East and West in Nausicaä: A Question of Environmental Ethics by Yu Jia Lin
• Rehabilitation after Apocalypses: Miyazaki’s Meditations Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke by Georgia Yew

Volume 4 (2020)

Issue 1: Dystopia: Mirror or Myth

• More to Autodale Than Meets the Eye by Hazel Tan
• The Inconsistent Picture of Racism Painted by Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by Ting Xiao
• The Human Ethics of Care: A Leverage Over Superhumans in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld by Allison Hoe
• Mortal Engines: Is It the Ship or the Captain? by Valerie Tan
• Pointing Fingers at the Grain: An Examination of Human Responsibility in “The Entire History of You” by Sharlene Lim

Issue 2: Choice and Determinism in the Apocalypse

• The Apocalyptic Dimensions of War: the Centrality of Biblical Narrative Subversion in William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” by Veronike-Nikole Ban
• Determinism or Free Will: Time Travel in The Terminator (1984)and Back to the Future (1985) by Hussain Fathah
• Undertale: the Game that Makes You Choose to Care by Amanda Lim
• Moral Engagement and Time-Travel in Life is Strange by Claire Low
• Optimistic depictions of human-AI relationships in popular cinema: A comparative analysis of Her (2013) and Interstellar (2014) by Marcus Chew

Volume 3 (2018)

Issue 1: Youth and the Apocalypse

• Enola and the Mariner: Why we can’t have one without the other in the film, Waterworld by Tanya Ang
• Violence by Adolescents against Establishments, an Eschatological Analysis of Donnie Darko and the Destructors by Elaine Koh
• Traumatic Adolescences and Revolutionary Tendencies in Brian Singer’s X-men by Clarice Loke
• Social Isolation and Jonas’ Rebellion in The Giver by Praveen Rahman
• Survival versus Morality of Youths in the Presence of a Protector in the Hunger Games and The Road by Peng Yun Ting

Issue 2: Construction and Reconstruction: Society Broken Down

• Brave New World and Elysium: What Justifies Our Fear of Technological Advancement? by Gan Ke Ching
• Inferno: The Blurring of Lines between a Hero and a Villain by Loh Wei Ting
• I Am Legend (Book versus Movie): A Reflection of Society across Time by Bethany Leong
• The Giver (1993): The Challenges of Creating an Ideal Society by Pooja Bhagwan
• Agency in The Village and The Handmaid’s Tale: Regressive Societies and Power by Ooi Wen Ting

Issue 3: Humanity Apocalypse

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014): Sticking to their guns: Humanity in the Planet of Apes by Arvindh Ulagapan
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): Under the Facade of Non-essentialism: Humanity’s Deep-seated Gender Stereotypes by Liu Jian Lin
• The 100 (2014): Power of Morality in the Face of Crisis by Choo Jun Heng, Alvin
• 2012(2009) : Decision Making In The Face Of The Apocalypse by Darren Lim

Issue 4: War in the Apocalypse

• War between Man and Machine in The Matrix Trilogy and The Terminator by Mahnveer Kaur
• War Against Power in Mockingjay and War for the Planet of the Apes by Theodore Vito
• War on Terror in I Am Legend and World War Z by Ayden Bae
• War against extraterrestrial invasion in Independence Day by Leong Jun Wen

Issue 5: Science and Knowledge in the Apocalypse

• The Bicentennial Man: What’s In A Name? That Which We Call A Human… by Oliver Cheok
• Centralization of Humanity in Geostorm by Ryan Tan Wei Young
• Humanity For AI: What’s The Westworld Verdict? by Shikhar Gupta
• Seeing The ‘Pros’ In Propaganda: Sensationalism In The Day After Tomorrow by Rachel Teng Ying Xin
• A Shift In Focus In Psycho-Pass: ‘AI Gone Rogue’ To The Susceptibility Of The Exploitation Of AI By Humans by Sean Low Chen Yi

Volume 2 (2018)

Issue 1: Hope in the Apocalypse

• “Survival is insufficient: The value of human arts, culture, civilisation and society in Station Eleven”by Lynette Heng
• “A new world, new judgments: Exploration of morality in The Last of Us” by Clara Lim
• “Facing Danger: the Companion of Familiar Ones in Train to Busan” by Zheng Shanshan
• “Perspectives of Relationships between Hope & Freedom” by Teo Jao Ming

Issue 2: Alleviating the Apocalypse: Through Sacrifice and Redemption

• “Pluralized Sacrifice: Roland Emmerich’s unique take on the Apocalypse “by Rohan Vaidya
• “Apocalypse Now: Imperialism or Moral Sacrifice?” by Mohamad Asyraf Mohamad Zaidi
• “The Jaded “Hero”: An Analysis of Sacrifice in “We Happy Few” by Sabrina Ng
• “The Portrayal of Redemption in Mad Max: Fury Road and its predecessors” by Nikita Gupta

Volume 1 (2017)

Issue 1: The Portrayal of Societal Fears in Popular Culture

• “BNL: The Embodiment of our Worst Nightmares Regarding Capitalism” by Doreen Khin
• “An Examination of Artificial Intelligence’s Portrayal in Avengers: Age of Ultron“ by Rachel Boey
• “A Look at the Success of Marvel’s Civil War in a Post-9/11 World” by Arnold Teo
• “The Chrysalids: Paradox in Modern Societies” by Zhang Fengfang

Issue 2: Revelations

• “Convergence of Machine and Human: WALL-E’s Forewarning of The Future” by Jane Ang
• “Exploring the Convergence between the Virtual and the Real in Ender’s Game” by Guo Lilian
• “Navigating Apocalyptic Landscapes – A Closer Look at Z for Zachariah“ by Kevin Tan

Issue 3: Apocalypse in the Modern Era

• “Beauty of Misery: Behind the Success of Apocalyptic-themed Games” by Jesmine Woon
• “Why I, Robot is a Persuasive Film for the Imagining of the A.I. Apocalypse” by Amanda Tan
• “Wall-E: More than a Robot Animation” by Benjamin Tan
• “Representations of Science and Technology in Viral Apocalypses” by Natasha Tan

Issue 4: Dominance and Oppression in the Apocalypse

• “Reconciling Power Structures and Human Agency in the Apocalypse” by Megan Huang
• “Feminism in Resident Evil“ by Zheng Jieru
• “A Sense of Life, But: Inferior Machines and Superior Humans in Modern AI Apocalypse Fiction” by Yong Chun San
• “Significance of Communication in Alien Encounters” by Kong Dehao

Issue 5: Big Picture: Apocalypse, Small Picture?

• “Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Transformers: Age of Extinction“ by Rachel Thomas
• “The ‘Collapse’ of Society in The Handmaid’s Tale: The Threat of Chemical Apocalypse and the Oppressive Government” by Jia Ying
• “The Ones who Walk Away from Snowpiercer“ by Ng Qian Qian

Issue 6: Title

• “The Apepocalypse” by Goh Wei Shern
• “The Reversal” by Kelvin Neo
• “The Second Coming of Klaatu: Biblical Allusions in the Day the Earth Stood Still and its Remake” by Samuel Lai
• “Mental Deterioration” by Lee Shin Yi