Survival film

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The survival film is a film genre in which one or more characters make an effort at physical survival. It often overlaps with other film genres. It is a subgenre of the adventure film, along with swashbuckler films, war films, and safari films.[1] Survival films are darker than most other adventure films which usually focuses its storyline on a single character, usually the protagonist. The films tend to be "located primarily in a contemporary context" so film audiences are familiar with the setting, meaning the characters' activities are less romanticized.[2]

Thomas Sobchack compared the survival film to romance: "They both emphasize the heroic triumph over obstacles which threaten social order and the reaffirmation of predominant social values such as fair play and respect for merit and cooperation."[2] The author said survival films "identify and isolate a microcosm of society", such as the surviving group from the plane crash in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) or those on the overturned ocean liner in The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Sobchack explained, "Most of the time in a survival film is spent depicting the process whereby the group, cut off from the securities and certainties of the ordinary support networks of civilized life, forms itself into a functioning, effective unit." The group often varies in types of characters, sometimes to the point of caricature. While women have historically been stereotyped in such films, they "often play a decisive role in the success or failure of the group".[3]

List of films

The following survival films are listed alphabetically.

Film Year Ref.
The 33 2015 [4]
127 Hours 2010 [5]
Against the Sun 2014 [6]
Alive 1993 [7]
All Is Lost 2013 [8]
Apollo 13 1995 [9]
Buried 2010 [5]
Captain Phillips 2013 [10]
Cast Away 2000 [5]
The Deep 2012 [11]
Deliverance 1972 [7]
Desierto 2016
The Edge 1997 [7]
Escape from Alcatraz 1979 [12]
Everest 2015 [13]
The Flight of the Phoenix 1965 [3]
Gravity 2013 [10]
The Grey 2011 [14]
A Hijacking 2012 [9]
The Impossible 2012 [15]
I Am Legend 2007 [16]
In the Heart of the Sea 2015 [17]
Into the Wild 2007 [5]
Jeremiah Johnson 1971 [18]
Life of Pi 2012 [19]
Lifeboat 1944 [20]
Lone Survivor 2013 [10]
Marooned 1969 [20]
The Martian 2015 [21]
Man in the Wilderness 1971 [20]
Meek's Cutoff 2010 [18]
The Naked Prey 1965 [20]
Nobody Wants the Night 2015 [22]
The Omega Man 1971 [20]
On the Beach 1959 [20]
Open Water 2003 [5]
Panic in Year Zero! 1962 [20]
Planet of the Apes 1968 [20]
The Poseidon Adventure 1972 [3]
Quest for Fire 1981 [5]
Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 [5]
Rescue Dawn 2006 [5]
The Revenant 2015 [23]
The Road 2009 [9]
Robinson Crusoe 1997 [24]
Robinson Crusoe on Mars 1965 [25]
Sanctum 2011 [26]
Sands of the Kalahari 1965 [20]
The Savage Is Loose 1974 [20]
Seven Waves Away (also called Abandon Ship!) 1957 [9]
Southern Comfort 1981 [18]
Soylent Green 1973 [20]
Sunshine (2007 film) 2007 [27]
Survival Quest 1989 [7]
The Survivalist 2015
Swiss Family Robinson 1960 [14]
Teenage Cave Man 1958 [20]
Touching the Void 2003 [5]
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains 2007 [9]
The Ultimate Warrior 1975 [28]
The War Game 1965 [20]
Walkabout 1971 [9]
The Way Back 2010 [5]
Wild 2014
The World, the Flesh and the Devil 1959 [20]
World Trade Center 2006
Zero Population Growth 1972 [20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sobchack 1988, p. 12
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sobchack 1988, p. 14
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sobchack 1988, p. 15
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