The end all around us : apocalyptic texts and popular culture.

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For centuries the apocalypse has been a recurrent theme within art, literature, music, and more recently cinema. Within the context of contemporary popular culture its influence may be felt in areas as diverse as extreme metal music, disaster movies, anime and manga, Science Fiction dystopianism and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Walliss, John, 1974-, Newport, Kenneth G. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Oakville : Equinox, 2009.
Colección:Millennialism and society.
Temas:
Popular culture > Religious aspects.
End of the world.
Culture populaire > Aspect religieux.
Fin du monde.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Theology.
Populaire cultuur.
Einde der tijden.
Religieuze aspecten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport
  • Songs of fate, hope and oblivion : Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism / Gary Baines
  • End of the world music : is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? / Keith Kahn-Harris
  • Babylon's burning : reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism / Christopher Partridge
  • Apocalypse at the millennium / John Walliss
  • 'The days are numbered' : the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films / Lee Quinby
  • Making things new : regeneration and transcendence in Anime / Mick Broderick
  • Selling faith without selling out : reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture / Jennie Chapman
  • 'The shadow of the end' : the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction / Roslyn Weaver
  • An end times virtual 'Ekklesia' : ritual deliberation in participatory media / Robert Glenn Howard
  • Index.

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