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Full Description
Responding to a plethora of media representing end times, this anthology of essays examines pop culture's fascination with end of the world or apocalyptic narratives. Essays discuss films and made-for-television movies - including Deep Impact, The Core, and The Day After Tomorrow - that feature primarily [hu]man-made catastrophes or natural catastrophes. These representations complement the large amount of mediated literature and films on religious perspectives of the apocalypse, the Left Behind series, and other films/books that deal with prophecy from the Book of Revelation in the Bible. This book will be useful in upper-level undergraduate/graduate courses addressing mass media, film and television studies, popular culture, rhetorical criticism, and special/advanced topics. In addition, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in disciplines including anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and religious studies.
Contents
Contents: Annette M. Holba/Kylo-Patrick R. Hart: Introduction - Terri Toles Patkin: The Day After the End of the World: Media Coverage of a Nonevent - Gary Baines: Apocalypticism in American Folk Music - Jason T. Clemence: Empty All Along: Eraserhead, Apocalypse, and Dismantled Masculine Privilege - Jörn Ahrens: How to Save the Unsaved World? Transforming the Self in The Matrix, The Terminator, and 12 Monkeys - Kylo-Patrick R. Hart: Diversity, The Doom Generation, and the Apocalypse - Annette M. Holba: Occultic Rhetoric in the Buffyverse: Apocalypse Revisited - Christian Lundberg: The Pleasure of Sadism: A Reading of the Left Behind Series - Mark J. Porrovecchio: Apocalypse Documented: An Audiovisual Representation of September 11, 2001 - Brent Yergensen: Exploring Science as Salvation in Apocalyptic Films - Terence McSweeney: Apocalypto Now: A New Millennial Pax Americana in Crisis? - Corey Anton: Futuralness as Freedom: Moving toward the Past that Will-Have-Been.
