Walliss, John. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781317491033 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular culture - Religious aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL65.C8 -- E53 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>202.3