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The end all around us : apocalyptic texts and popular culture / edited by John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Millennialism and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Religious aspects.
- Popular culture.
- End of the world.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Oakville : Equinox, 2009.
- Summary:
- For centuries the apocalypse has been a recurrent theme within art, literature, music and, more recently, cinema. Within the context of contemparary popular culture its influence may be felt in areas as diverse as extreme metal music, disaster movies, anime and mango, Science Fiction dystopianism and the Left Behind series of novels. The aim of this collection of essays is to examine the influence of apocalyptic texts on popular cultural products, focusing on the timelessness and malleability of their themes to audiences. Chapters focus on the influence of such texts within the areas of film, music, literature and the internet.
- Christopher Partridge|p43
- Contents:
- Introduction / John Walliss, Kenneth G. C. Newport ix
- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism / Gary Baines 1
- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? / Keith Kahn-Harris 22
- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism / Christopher Partridge 43
- Apocalypse at the millennium / John Walliss 71
- "The days are numbered": the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films / Lee Quinby 97
- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime / Mick Broderick 120
- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture / Jennie Chapman 148
- "The shadow of the end": the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction / Roslyn Weaver 173
- An end times virtual "Ekklesia": ritual deliberation in participatory media / Robert Glenn Howard 198.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781845532611
- 1845532619
- 9781845532628
- 1845532627
- OCLC:
- 253838702
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