The role of the state in the realization of the apocalypse in post-apocalyptic films and its presence in the new post-apocalyptic social order

This thesis aims to understand and comprehend the historical emergence and development of the state institution, which is not known exactly how it was founded and tried to be theorized with many theories, and the reasons why people have to adhere to this institution from birth, death and even after death in the Post-Apocalyptic (Post-Apocalyptic) film narratives. Although almost all of the post-apocalyptic films have different plots and different texts, in all the films in the sample, how the stateless people who try to establish a primitive, slave-owning and hegemony-based state organization after the destruction of the modern state which had developed over thousands of years in accordance with the historical continuity is analysed by discourse analysis method based on Foucault's knowledge/ power nexus. It has been concluded that the cause of the apocalypse in the apocalypse movies is actually the state institution embodied in human, and this institution which causes the apocalypse imposes its existence as an indispensable institution that has to be re-established in the cinematic work, although it is the cause of the apocalypse.