Stephen King once remarked that we create horrors to deal with the anxieties that exist in the real world, and chief among these is our fear of mortality, which is heightened during times of conflict or fear of conflict. The idea that “[w] e should fight for our humanity, and ‘not go gentle into that good night’ ” has political implications. This is precisely why the history of movies is tied to political events, something seen in the increased production of science fiction films during the Cold War and the precipitous rise in apocalyptic films since 2001.

XREF: Connects to the broader claim that movie history tracks political events, echoing the Cold War sci-fi boom and post-2001 apocalyptic surge.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 687