Imagining the End -

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Résumé :
Imagining the End provides students and general readers with contextualized examples of how the apocalypse has been imagined across all mediums of American popular culture. Detailed entries analyze the development, influence, and enjoyment of end-times narratives. Imagining the End provides a contextual overview and individual description and analysis of the wide range of depictions of the end of the world that have appeared in American popular culture. American writers, filmmakers, television producers, and game developers inundated the culture with hundreds of imagined apocalyptic scenarios, influenced by the Biblical Book of Revelation, the advent of the end of the second millennium (2000 CE), or predictions of catastrophic events such as nuclear war, climate change, and the spread of AIDS. From being raptured to surviving the zombie apocalypse, readers and viewers have been left with an almost endless sequence of disasters to experience. Imagining the End examines this phenomenon and provides a context for understanding, and perhaps appreciating, the end of the world. This title is composed of alphabetized entries covering all topics related to the end times, covering popular culture mediums such as comic books, literature, films, and music....

Biographie:
James Craig Holte is emeritus professor of English and film studies at East Carolina University.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
A-Z Entries
Alien Invasions
American Millennialism
Andromeda Strain, The
Antichrist
Apocalypse
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypto
Art and the Apocalypse
Ballard, J. G. and Apocalyptic Environmentalism
Battlestar Galactica
Blackfish City
Blade Runner
Book of Daniel, The
Book of Ezekiel, The
Book of Revelation, The
Cat's Cradle
Clarke, Arthur C. and the Ends of the Earth
Cloud Atlas
Comedic Apocalypses
Comic Books and the Apocalypse
Darby, John Nelson and Dispensationalism
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
Deus Irae
Diseases and Pestilence
Doomsday Clock, The
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
Ghost Dance, The
Gospel of Loki, The
I Am Legend
Inconvenient Truth, An
Jericho
Just a Couple of Days
Last Judgment, The
Last Ship, The
Late Great Planet Earth, The
Latter-day Saints Prophecy
Left Behind
Leiden, John of and the Millennium Kingdom of Munster
Lewis, C. S. and the Space Trilogy
Little Apocalypse, The
Lucifer's Hammer
Mad Max Franchise
MaddAddam Trilogy, The
Mark of the Beast
Massacre of Mankind, The
Metropolis
Miller, William
Music and the Apocalypse
Night of the Living Dead
Nostradamus
Nuclear War
Omega Man, The
Omen, The
Paradigm, The
Planet of the Apes
Poetry and the Apocalypse
Prophets and Predictions
Ragnarok
Rapture
Religious Traditions and the Apocalypse
Scofield Reference Bible, The
Soylent Green
Stand, The
Supernatural Apocalypse
Television and the Apocalypse
Theater and the Apocalypse
This Is the Way the World Ends
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
Umbrella Academy, The
Universal Flood
Walking Dead, The
World War Z
Wormwood
Y2K
Zombie Apocalypse
Suggested Further Reading
About the Editor and Contributors
Index