Imagining the End

The Apocalypse in American Popular Culture
Herausgeber: Holte, Jim

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Produktbeschreibung

Imagining the End provides students and general readers with contextualized examples of how the apocalypse has been imagined across all mediums of American popular culture. Detailed entries analyze the development, influence, and enjoyment of end-times narratives. Imagining the End provides a contextual overview and individual description and analysis of the wide range of depictions of the end of the world that have appeared in American popular culture. American writers, filmmakers, television producers, and game developers inundated the culture with hundreds of imagined apocalyptic scenarios, influenced by the Biblical Book of Revelation, the advent of the end of the second millennium (2000 CE), or predictions of catastrophic events such as nuclear war, climate change, and the spread of AIDS. From being "raptured" to surviving the zombie apocalypse, readers and viewers have been left with an almost endless sequence of disasters to experience. Imagining the End examines this phenomenon and provides a context for understanding, and perhaps appreciating, the end of the world. This title is composed of alphabetized entries covering all topics related to the end times, covering popular culture mediums such as comic books, literature, films, and music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ABC-CLIO
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 823g
• ISBN-13: 9781440861017
• ISBN-10: 1440861013
• Artikelnr.: 56790273

Autorenporträt

James Craig Holte is emeritus professor of English and film studies at East Carolina University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction A-Z Entries Alien Invasions American Millennialism Andromeda Strain
The Antichrist Apocalypse Apocalypse Now Apocalypto Art and the Apocalypse Ballard
J. G. and Apocalyptic Environmentalism Battlestar Galactica Blackfish City Blade Runner Book of Daniel
The Book of Ezekiel
The Book of Revelation
The Cat's Cradle Clarke
Arthur C. and the Ends of the Earth Cloud Atlas Comedic Apocalypses Comic Books and the Apocalypse Darby
John Nelson and Dispensationalism Day the Earth Stood Still
The Deus Irae Diseases and Pestilence Doomsday Clock
The Dr. Strangelove Dystopias Earth Abides Environmental Apocalypses Eschatology Falling Skies: Meteors
Comets
and the End of the Earth Father Elijah: An Apocalypse Fiction and the Apocalypse Fifth Monarchy Men Film and the Apocalypse Flood Gaming and the Apocalypse Ghost Dance
The Gospel of Loki
The I Am Legend Inconvenient Truth
An Jericho Just a Couple of Days Last Judgment
The Last Ship
The Late Great Planet Earth
The Latter-day Saints Prophecy Left Behind Leiden
John of and the Millennium Kingdom of Munster Lewis
C. S. and the Space Trilogy Little Apocalypse
The Lucifer's Hammer Mad Max Franchise MaddAddam Trilogy
The Mark of the Beast Massacre of Mankind
The Metropolis Miller
William Music and the Apocalypse Night of the Living Dead Nostradamus Nuclear War Omega Man
The Omen
The Paradigm
The Planet of the Apes Poetry and the Apocalypse Prophets and Predictions Ragnarok Rapture Religious Traditions and the Apocalypse Scofield Reference Bible
The Soylent Green Stand
The Supernatural Apocalypse Television and the Apocalypse Theater and the Apocalypse This Is the Way the World Ends 12 Monkeys 28 Days Later Umbrella Academy
The Universal Flood Walking Dead
The World War Z Wormwood Y2K Zombie Apocalypse Suggested Further Reading About the Editor and Contributors Index