The End All Around UsThe Apocalypse and Popular Culture
Edited by: John Walliss, Kenneth G.C. Newport
Series: Millennialism and Society Hardback Price £65.00/$100.00 Paperback Price £15.99/$26.95 |    |
Description
For centuries the apocalypse has been a recurrent theme within art, literature, music, and more recently cinema. Within the context of contemporary popular culture its influence may be felt in areas as diverse as extreme metal music, disaster movies, anime and manga, Science Fiction dystopianism and the Left Behind series of novels. The aim of this collection of essays is to examine the influence of apocalyptic texts on popular cultural products, focusing on the timelessness and malleability of their themes to audiences. Chapters will focus on the influence of such texts within the areas of film, music, literature, and the internet.
For centuries the apocalypse has been a recurrent theme within art, literature, music, and more recently cinema. Within the context of contemporary popular culture its influence may be felt in areas as diverse as extreme metal music, disaster movies, anime and manga, Science Fiction dystopianism and the Left Behind series of novels. The aim of this collection of essays is to examine the influence of apocalyptic texts on popular cultural products, focusing on the timelessness and malleability of their themes to audiences. Chapters will focus on the influence of such texts within the areas of film, music, literature, and the internet.
Contents
Series Introduction
Brenda Brasher
1. Introduction
John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport
2. Songs of Fate, Hope and Oblivion: Dylan's Dystopianism and Apocalypticism
Gary Baines (Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa)
3. End of the World Music: Is Extreme Metal the Sound of the Apocalypse?
Keith Kahn-Harris (Open University)
4. Babylon’s Burning: Reggae, Rastafari, and Millenarianism
Christopher Partridge (University of Lancaster)
5. Apocalypse at the Millennium
John Walliss
6. 'The Days are Numbered:' The Romance of Death, Doom, and Deferral in Contemporary Apocalypse Films"
Lee Quinby (Mccauley Honors College, CUNY)
7. Making Things New: Regeneration and Transcendence in Anime
Mick Broderick (Murdoch University, Australia)
8. Selling Faith without Selling Out: Reading the Left Behind Novels in the Context of Popular Culture
Jennie Chapman (University of Manchester)
9. ‘The Shadow of the End:’ The Appeal of Apocalypse in Literary Science Fiction
Roslyn Weaver (University of Wollongong, NSW)
10. An End Times Virtual ‘Ekklesia:’ Ritual Deliberation in Participatory Media
Robert Glenn Howard (The University of Wisconsin)
Reviews
'These ten scholars have done a very creditable job. Recommended.'
Choice, March 2010, Vol. 47 No. 07
'Millennialism and Society is a publishing project that is as bold as it is admirable. It combines a meticulous scholarly approach with ethical and political awareness. In a world haunted and endangered by apocalyptic visions of every kind, this series will surely contribute to a better sense of what we face and who we are.'
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, City University of New York
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845532619 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845532611 |
| Price (Hardback) | £65.00/$100.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845532627 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845532628 |
| Price (Paperback) | £15.99/$26.95 |
| Publication Date | June 2009 |
| Pages | 240 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
| Illustrations | 10 figures |
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