Magid, Annette M.

Apocalyptic Projections : A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (267 pages)

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- PART II -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- PART III: -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. Theories abounded in an attempt to prepare for calamity and plan for the future. Worldwide concern regarding a twenty-first century apocalypse, related to the 2012 Mayan Apocalyptic prediction, sparked renewed interest. Even though the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope. The majority of the papers included in Apocalyptic Projections were p.

9781443878807


Apocalypse in literature -- Congresses.
Apocalypse in motion pictures -- Congresses.
Apocalyptic literature -- Congresses.


Electronic books.

PT405 .M384 2015

809.933