TY - BOOK AU - Walliss,John AU - Newport,Kenneth G.C. TI - The End All Around Us: Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture T2 - Millennialism and Society Series SN - 9781317491033 AV - BL65.C8 -- E53 2009eb U1 - 202.3 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Popular culture - Religious aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1886908 ER -