Imagining the End - The Apocalypse in American Popular Culture (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	ABC-CLIO Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2019
Editors:	James Craig Holte
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-4408-6101-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology > General Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4408-6101-3
Barcode:	9781440861017

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