The end all around us apocalyptic texts and popular culture / edited by John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport.

Other author Walliss, John, 1974-
Other author Newport, Kenneth G. C.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; Oakville : Equinox,
Descriptionxiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesMillennialism and society
Millennialism and society. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Introduction / John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport -- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism / Gary Baines -- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse? / Keith Kahn-Harris -- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari, and millenarianism / Christopher Partridge -- Apocalypse at the millennium / John Walliss -- "The days are numbered": the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films / Lee Quinby -- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime / Mick Broderick -- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture / Jennie Chapman -- "The shadow of the end": the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction / Roslyn Weaver -- An end times virtual "Ekklesia": ritual deliberation in participatory media / Robert Glenn Howard -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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