ABSTRACT
Disaster films focus on the challenges faced by characters under the pressure of dealing with an impending or ongoing natural, man-made or supernatural large-scale destruction. After World War II, sci-fi/fantasy/disaster films became popular and focused on possible devastations due to atomic warfare. Disaster films are often constructed under the uber-genre drama umbrella. The screenwriter, in creating the mental space of the disaster genre for the audience, may employ schematic knowledge choices by setting up the "normal life" of the situation and characters while also setting up the threat of the impending or current disaster. This chapter explains the terms such as hostilities, world order, pro-war, anti-war, enmity, police action, and warrior. The actual term "war" relates to an official governmental declaration of explicit hostile action. Films in the war genre focus on the reasons, the techniques, the conflicts and the obstacles of combat as well as the presence and/or aftermath of hostile relations between countries, states or factions of people.
