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Title The end all around us [electronic resource] : apocalyptic texts and popular culture / edited by John Walliss and Kenneth G.C. Newport.

Imprint London ; Oakville : Equinox, 2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 226 p. : ill.
Series Millennialism and society
Millennialism and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Popular culture -- Religious aspects.
End of the world.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Walliss, John, 1974-
Newport, Kenneth G. C.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781845532611 (hb)
1845532619 (hb)
9781845532628 (pb)
1845532627 (pb)
9781845537654 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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