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The End All Around Us : Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Millennialism and Society SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317491033
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The End All Around UsDDC classification:
  • 202.3
LOC classification:
  • BL65.C8 -- E53 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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