The End All Around Us : Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture.
Walliss, John.
The End All Around Us : Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (241 pages) - Millennialism and Society Series . - Millennialism and Society Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism -- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? -- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism -- Apocalypse at the millennium -- The days are numbered": the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films -- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime -- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture -- The shadow of the end": the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction -- An end times virtual "Ekklesia": ritual deliberation in participatory media -- Index.
The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture. 'The End All Around Us' presents a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of the apocalypse within art, literature, music and film.
9781317491033
Popular culture - Religious aspects.
Electronic books.
BL65.C8 -- E53 2009eb
202.3
The End All Around Us : Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (241 pages) - Millennialism and Society Series . - Millennialism and Society Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism -- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? -- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism -- Apocalypse at the millennium -- The days are numbered": the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films -- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime -- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture -- The shadow of the end": the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction -- An end times virtual "Ekklesia": ritual deliberation in participatory media -- Index.
The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture. 'The End All Around Us' presents a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of the apocalypse within art, literature, music and film.
9781317491033
Popular culture - Religious aspects.
Electronic books.
BL65.C8 -- E53 2009eb
202.3