A critical approach to the apocalypse. / edited by Alexandra Simon-López, Heidi Yeandle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simon-López, Alexandra, editor.

Yeandle, Heidi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Summary:

A Critical Approach to the Apocalypse offers the reader an in-depth view of the portrayal of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios in literature, film and television, art, digital art, history, anthropology, religion and climate change studies.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Alexandra Simon-López and Heidi Yeandle

Ancient and Modern Apocalypse from a Genre Theory Perspective / Allan Weiss

Destruction from Within: The Significance of the Resurgence of Zombies in Film and Fiction / Jeremy R. Strong

Zombie Survival Guides: Denying the Apocalypse / Kelly Gardner

Board Up Your Windows, Lock Your Doors, No Help Is Coming: Zombies and Divine Violence / Russell Ramey

Lovelock’s Final Warning: Towards a Typology of Religious Narration of Scientific Climate Change Accounts / Seline Reinhardt

Weather of Mass Destruction: Forecasting the Future as Climate-Driven War / Stephen Jackson

Myths of the End and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods / Hatice Yurttas

Printed Representations of Catholic and Protestant Martyrdom in Tudor England, 1530-1600 / Nick K. Crown

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

Postmillennialism and the American Missionary Enterprise in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century / Justin Michael James Dell

The Apocalypse Is Here, Again: Moral Ambiguities and Human Failings in Watchmen / Lara Narcisi

The Eschatological Dimension of C. S. Lewis’ The Last Battle / Magdalena Zegarlińska

Apocalyptic Images of the Great War in Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth and Peyami Safa’s Mahşer / Elif Derya Şenduran

The End of the World of the End: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Political Theory / Milo Sweedler

The Stolen Child: Fear of Hybridisation and Metamorphosis in American Apocalyptic Film / Shane Trayers

Apocalypse Now and the Bhagavata Purana: The End of the World as We Hardly Know It / Igor Grbić

Crime and Punishment: Greed, Pride and Guilt in Breaking Bad / Pablo Echart and Alberto N. García

Black Mirror: ‘The National Anthem’. An Artistic Creation for an Institutional Crisis / Edisa Mondelo González , Alfonso Cuadrado Alvarado and Rubén Sánchez Trigos

Filming the Domestic Apocalypse: Home and Hell in Narratives of the Crisis / Antonio Sánchez-Escalonilla and Silvia Herreros de Tejada

Apocalyptic Landscapes in Times of Crisis: Aesthetic Connections between Fiction Cinema and Documentary Images Based on Reality / Raúl Álvarez Gómez and Araceli Rodríguez Mateos

Facing the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession: The Biopic as a Socio-Cultural Response to the Collapse / Marta Frago

Sex and Seduction at the End of Time: The Apocalypse in Digital Art / Alexandra Simon-López

John Martin’s Marketing of a Modern Apocalypse / Helen Sutherland

(Post)Apocalypse Now! David Mitchell’s Postmodern Fiction / Scott Dimovitz

Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains: The Post-Apocalyptic Function of the University / Heidi Yeandle

Post-Apocalyptic Identity: Alderney in the Spotlight / Sheila C. Bibb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84888-270-X

OCLC:

1096231262

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848882706 DOI