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The Afterlife in Popular Culture - Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination (Hardcover)
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The Afterlife in Popular Culture - Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination (Hardcover)
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The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld
in the American Imagination gives students a fresh look at how
Americans view the afterlife, helping readers understand how it's
depicted in popular culture. What happens to us when we die? The
book seeks to explore how that question has been answered in
American popular culture. It begins with five framing essays that
provide historical and intellectual background on ideas about the
afterlife in Western culture. These essays are followed by more
than 100 entries, each focusing on specific cultural products or
authors that feature the afterlife front and center. Entry topics
include novels, film, television shows, plays, works of nonfiction,
graphic novels, and more, all of which address some aspect of what
may await us after our passing. This book is unique in marrying a
historical overview of the afterlife with detailed analyses of
particular cultural products, such as films and novels. In
addition, it covers these topics in nonspecialist language, written
with a student audience in mind. The book provides historical
context for contemporary depictions of the afterlife addressed in
the entries, which deal specifically with work produced in the 20th
and 21st centuries. Provides readers with an encyclopedic treatment
of the afterlife in American popular culture, without any religious
or moral biases Connects depictions of the afterlife with general
social trends Contests the idea that Americans fear death by
showing the plethora of examples of the afterlife shown in film,
television, and more Presents a serious analysis of vampires,
zombies, and other fictional archetypes without becoming
hyper-academic or humorous
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