Imagining the End

The Apocalypse in American Popular Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvJames Craig Holte,USA) Holte, James Craig (East Carolina University,Jim Holte

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-11-11
Mått178 x 254 x 22 mm
Vikt794 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781440861017

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionA–Z EntriesAlien InvasionsAmerican MillennialismAndromeda Strain, TheAntichristApocalypseApocalypse NowApocalyptoArt and the ApocalypseBallard, J. G. and Apocalyptic EnvironmentalismBattlestar GalacticaBlackfish CityBlade RunnerBook of Daniel, TheBook of Ezekiel, TheBook of Revelation, TheCat's CradleClarke, Arthur C. and the Ends of the EarthCloud AtlasComedic ApocalypsesComic Books and the ApocalypseDarby, John Nelson and DispensationalismDay the Earth Stood Still, TheDeus IraeDiseases and PestilenceDoomsday Clock, TheDr. StrangeloveDystopiasEarth AbidesEnvironmental ApocalypsesEschatologyFalling Skies: Meteors, Comets, and the End of the EarthFather Elijah: An ApocalypseFiction and the ApocalypseFifth Monarchy MenFilm and the ApocalypseFloodGaming and the ApocalypseGhost Dance, TheGospel of Loki, TheI Am LegendInconvenient Truth, AnJerichoJust a Couple of DaysLast Judgment, TheLast Ship, TheLate Great Planet Earth, TheLatter-day Saints ProphecyLeft BehindLeiden, John of and the Millennium Kingdom of MunsterLewis, C. S. and the Space TrilogyLittle Apocalypse, TheLucifer's HammerMad Max FranchiseMaddAddam Trilogy, TheMark of the BeastMassacre of Mankind, TheMetropolisMiller, WilliamMusic and the ApocalypseNight of the Living DeadNostradamusNuclear WarOmega Man, TheOmen, TheParadigm, ThePlanet of the ApesPoetry and the ApocalypseProphets and PredictionsRagnarokRaptureReligious Traditions and the ApocalypseScofield Reference Bible, TheSoylent GreenStand, TheSupernatural ApocalypseTelevision and the ApocalypseTheater and the ApocalypseThis Is the Way the World Ends12 Monkeys28 Days LaterUmbrella Academy, TheUniversal FloodWalking Dead, TheWorld War ZWormwoodY2KZombie ApocalypseSuggested Further ReadingAbout the Editor and ContributorsIndex