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The End All Around Us
Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture
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- English
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About this book
The Apocalypse or end times are a recurrent theme within contemporary popular culture. 'The End All Around Us' presents a wide-ranging exploration of the influence of the apocalypse within art, literature, music and film. The essays draw on representations of the apocalypse in heavy metal music, science fiction, disaster movies and anime. The book examines key apocalyptic texts, focusing on their relevance to today. It will be invaluable to all those interested in the religious and cultural impact of apocalyptic thought.
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Index
12 Monkeys 72-3, 78, 80, 83, 88, 90-2
28 Days Later xi, 72, 78, 80, 82, 86, 90, 98, 108-9, 111-7
666 31, 100, 202, 206-7, 209, 211
9/11 72, 76, 89, 98, 105, 162, 175,193
Adam and Eve 12, 107
African Head Charge
"Heading to Glory" 56
In Pursuit of Shashamane Land 56
Songs of Praise 47
Akira xi, 120, 125-8, 130, 139, 143
Alien Invasion x, 72, 75, 100
Anime xi, 120-147
Antichrist 34, 61, 64, 72, 100, 122, 127, 136, 150, 179, 201-3, 209, 215
"Apocalyptic imagination" 2-4, 16-7, 25, 27-8, 30, 122, 168
Apocalypto xi, 98, 102-3, 106, 108, 110-1, 113, 115, 117
Appleseed xi, 120, 124, 128-30, 137-42
Armageddon (film) 72-3, 81, 83, 91, 92,
Armageddon 3, 11, 14-5, 33-5, 60, 91, 100, 122, 130, 137, 143, 182-3, 190, 202-3
Armagideon
Through the Haze 65
Ash croft, John 162
Astrology 127, 133
Atwood, Margaret
Oryx and Crake 173
Babylon x, 4, 13, 43-5, 47, 49, 51, 53-65, 100, 105
Babylon 58
Bauldrillard, Jean 71
Beast, The (see also 'Antichrist') 4, 33, 40, 61, 100, 158, 177, 179, 202-3, 206-7,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism
- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse?
- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism
- Apocalypse at the millennium
- "The days are numbered": the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films
- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime
- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture
- "The shadow of the end": the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction
- An end times virtual "Ekklesia": ritual deliberation in participatory media
- Index