Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism
- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse?
- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari and millenarianism
- Apocalypse at the Millennium
- “The days are numbered”: the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films
- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime
- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture
- “The shadow of the end”: the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction
- An end times virtual “Ekklesia”: ritual deliberation in participatory media
- Index
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Songs of fate, hope and oblivion: Bob Dylan's dystopianism and apocalyticism
- End of the world music: is extreme metal the sound of the apocalypse?
- Babylon's burning: reggae, Rastafari and millenarianism
- Apocalypse at the Millennium
- “The days are numbered”: the romance of death, doom, and deferral in contemporary apocalypse films
- Making things new: regeneration and transcendence in Anime
- Selling faith without selling out: reading the Left Behind novels in the context of popular culture
- “The shadow of the end”: the appeal of apocalypse in literary science fiction
- An end times virtual “Ekklesia”: ritual deliberation in participatory media
- Index
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- The End All Around UsThe Apocalypse and Popular Culture, pp. v - viPublisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2009