A critical approach to the apocalypse. / / edited by Alexandra Simon-López, Heidi Yeandle.

• TeilnehmendeR: Simon-López, Alexandra,; Yeandle, Heidi,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Ancient and Modern Apocalypse from a Genre Theory Perspective /; Destruction from Within: The Significance of the Resurgence of Zombies in Film and Fiction /; Zombie Survival Guides: Denying the Apocalypse /; Board Up Your Windows, Lock Your Doors, No Help Is Coming: Zombies and Divine Violence /; Lovelock’s Final Warning: Towards a Typology of Religious Narration of Scientific Climate Change Accounts /; Weather of Mass Destruction: Forecasting the Future as Climate-Driven War /; Myths of the End and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods /; Printed Representations of Catholic and Protestant Martyrdom in Tudor England, 1530-1600 /; ‘Apocalypse Now’: The Roles of End-of-Days Prophecies in Islam from the Sublime Taj Mahal to Salafist Anarchy /; Postmillennialism and the American Missionary Enterprise in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century /; The Apocalypse Is Here, Again: Moral Ambiguities and Human Failings in Watchmen /; The Eschatological Dimension of C. S. Lewis’ The Last Battle /; Apocalyptic Images of the Great War in Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth and Peyami Safa’s Mahşer /; The End of the World of the End: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Political Theory /; The Stolen Child: Fear of Hybridisation and Metamorphosis in American Apocalyptic Film /; Apocalypse Now and the Bhagavata Purana: The End of the World as We Hardly Know It /; Crime and Punishment: Greed, Pride and Guilt in Breaking Bad /; Black Mirror: ‘The National Anthem’. An Artistic Creation for an Institutional Crisis /; Filming the Domestic Apocalypse: Home and Hell in Narratives of the Crisis /; Apocalyptic Landscapes in Times of Crisis: Aesthetic Connections between Fiction Cinema and Documentary Images Based on Reality /; Facing the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession: The Biopic as a Socio-Cultural Response to the Collapse /; Sex and Seduction at the End of Time: The Apocalypse in Digital Art /; John Martin’s Marketing of a Modern Apocalypse /; (Post)Apocalypse Now! David Mitchell’s Postmodern Fiction /; Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains: The Post-Apocalyptic Function of the University /; Post-Apocalyptic Identity: Alderney in the Spotlight /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 184888270X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alexandra Simon-López, Heidi Yeandle.