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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.
| ISBN | 1845532627 | | Pages | 224 | | ISBN13 | 9781845532628
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Equinox Publishing Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 363 | | Imprint | Equinox Publishing Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Millennialism & Society S. | | Publication date | 01 Oct 2008 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Library of Congress | 2008039137 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 202.3 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate |
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| | | Series Introduction by Brenda Brasher | | | | 1 | | Introduction by John Walliss and Kenneth G. C. Newport | | | | 2 | | Songs of Fate, Hope and Oblivion: Dylan's Dystopianism and Apocalypticism by Gary Baines | | | | 3 | | End of the World Music: Is Extreme Metal the Sound of the Apocalypse? by Keith Kahn-Harris | | | | 4 | | Babylon's Burning: Reggae, Rastafari, and Millenarianism by Christopher Partridge | | | | 5 | | Apocalypse at the Millennium by John Walliss | | | | 6 | | 'The Days are Numbered:' The Romance of Death, Doom, and Deferral in Contemporary Apocalypse Films" by Lee Quinby | | | | 7 | | Making Things New: Regeneration and Transcendence in Anime by Mick Broderick | | | | 8 | | Selling Faith without Selling Out: Reading the Left Behind Novels in the Context of Popular Culture by Jennie Chapman | | | | 9 | | 'The Shadow of the End:' The Appeal of Apocalypse in Literary Science Fiction by Roslyn Weaver | | | | 10 | | An End Times Virtual 'Ekklesia:' Ritual Deliberation in Participatory Media by Robert Glenn Howard | | |
'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  Be the first to write a customer review
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