Framing the apocalypse : visions of the end-of-times / edited by Sheila C. Bibb and Alexandra Simon-Lopez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bibb, Sheila C., editor.

Simon-Lopez, Alexandra, editor.

Series:

Critical issues (Oxford, England)

Critical Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

End of the world in literature.

Apocalypse in motion pictures.

Apocalypse in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2015]

Summary:

The apocalypse's triumph is witnessed in the arts, literature, music, film, TV, and digital media thereby enabling us to view the very essence of Apocalypse as a cultural phenomenon.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Sheila C. Bibb and Alexandra Simon-López

C.S. Lewis and the Apocalypse: The Eschatological Dimension of The Last Battle / Magdalena Zegarlińska

‘Apocalypse Now’: The Roles of End-of-Days Prophecies in Islam from the Sublime Taj Mahal to Salafist Anarchy / Cynthia Finlayson

As a Lion among the Sheep: Indigenous Americans and the National Apocalypse in Early Mormon Thought / Ian Barber

Great Expectations: Postmillennialism and the American Missionary’s Apocalyptic Struggle against the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century / Justin Michael James Dell

Hell in Paris: Sex and Seduction as Personal Apocalypse in Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in Paris / Alexandra Simon-López

Breaking through – Staying Inside: Imagining the End of the World as a Place / Natalie Lettenewitsch

Breaking Bad: An Evil Self-Assertion at Life’s Twilight / Pablo Echart

From One End to Another: Allegorizing Apocalypse Now and Melancholia / Milo Sweedler

The Stolen Children: Hybrid Changelings and Saviours in American Apocalyptic Film / Shane Trayers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-39944-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004399440 DOI