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The End All Around Us : Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture.
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. The essays draw on representations of the apocalypse in heavy metal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Millennialism and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 fictionAn end times virtual ""Ekklesia"": ritual deliberation in participatory media; Index.