Imagining the end : the apocalypse in American popular culture / James Craig Holte, editor.
by
 
Holte, James Craig, editor.

ISBN
9781440861024

Title
Imagining the end : the apocalypse in American popular culture / James Craig Holte, editor.

Author
Holte, James Craig, editor.

Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 308 pages)

Contents
Alien invasions -- American millennialism -- The Andromeda strain -- Antichrist -- Apocalypse -- Apocalypse now -- Apocalypto -- Art and the apocalypse -- J.G. Ballard and apocalyptic environmentalism -- Battlestar Galactica -- Blackfish City -- Blade runner -- The book of Daniel -- The book of Ezekiel -- The book of revelation -- Cat's cradle -- Arthur C. Clarke and the ends of the Earth -- Cloud atlas -- Comedic apocalypses -- Comic books and the apocalypse -- John Nelson Darby and dispensationalism -- The day the Earth stood still -- Deus irae -- Diseases and pestilence -- The doomsday clock -- Dr. Strangelove -- Dystopias -- Earth abides -- Environmental apocalypses -- Eschatology -- Falling skies : meteors, comets, and the end of the Earth -- Father Elijah : an apocalypse -- Fiction and the apocalypse -- Fifth monarchy men -- Film and the apocalypse -- Flood -- Gaming and the apocalypse -- The ghost dance -- The gospel of Loki -- I am Legend -- An inconvenient truth -- Jericho -- Just a couple of days -- The last judgment -- The last ship -- The late great planet Earth -- Latter-day Saints prophecy -- Left behind -- John of Leiden and the millennium kingdom of Munster -- C.S. Lewis and the space trilogy -- The little apocalypse -- Lucifer's hammer -- Mad Max franchise -- The MaddAddam trilogy -- Mark of the beast -- The massacre of mankind -- Metropolis -- William Miller -- Music and the apocalypse -- Night of the living dead -- Nostradamus -- Nuclear war -- The omega man -- The omen -- The paradigm -- Planet of the apes -- Poetry and the apocalypse -- Prophets and predictions -- Ragnarok -- Rapture -- Religious traditions and the apocalypse -- The Scofield reference bible -- Soylent green -- The stand -- Supernatural apocalypse -- Television and the apocalypse -- Theater and the apocalypse -- This is the way the world ends -- 12 monkeys -- 28 days later -- The Umbrella Academy -- Universal flood -- The walking dead -- World War Z -- Wormwood -- Y2K -- Zombie apocalypse.

Local Note
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Subject Term
Apocalypse in mass media.
 
Popular culture -- United States.
 
Fin du monde dans les médias.
 
Culture populaire -- États-Unis.
 
Apocalypse in mass media
 
Popular culture

Geographic Term
United States

Added Author
Holte, James Craig,

Format
Electronic Resources

Electronic Access
http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2281350

Publication Date
2020

Publication Information
Santa Barbara, California :
 
ABC-CLIO,
 
[2020]


Shelf NumberMaterial TypeCopyShelf LocationStatus
791.43615 231:E-BOOK11:ONLINEAvailable for online access and/or download