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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Alexandra Simon-López and Heidi Yeandle -- Ancient and Modern Apocalypse from a Genre Theory Perspective / Allan Weiss -- Destruction from Within: The Significance of the Resurgence of Zombies in Film and Fiction / Jeremy R. Strong -- Zombie Survival Guides: Denying the Apocalypse / Kelly Gardner -- Board Up Your Windows, Lock Your Doors, No Help Is Coming: Zombies and Divine Violence / Russell Ramey -- Lovelock’s Final Warning: Towards a Typology of Religious Narration of Scientific Climate Change Accounts / Seline Reinhardt -- Weather of Mass Destruction: Forecasting the Future as Climate-Driven War / Stephen Jackson -- Myths of the End and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods / Hatice Yurttas -- Printed Representations of Catholic and Protestant Martyrdom in Tudor England, 1530-1600 / Nick K. Crown -- ‘Apocalypse Now’: The Roles of End-of-Days Prophecies in Islam from the Sublime Taj Mahal to Salafist Anarchy / Cynthia Finlayson -- Postmillennialism and the American Missionary Enterprise in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century / Justin Michael James Dell -- The Apocalypse Is Here, Again: Moral Ambiguities and Human Failings in Watchmen / Lara Narcisi -- The Eschatological Dimension of C. S. Lewis’ The Last Battle / Magdalena Zegarlińska -- Apocalyptic Images of the Great War in Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth and Peyami Safa’s Mahşer / Elif Derya Şenduran -- The End of the World of the End: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Political Theory / Milo Sweedler -- The Stolen Child: Fear of Hybridisation and Metamorphosis in American Apocalyptic Film / Shane Trayers -- Apocalypse Now and the Bhagavata Purana: The End of the World as We Hardly Know It / Igor Grbić -- Crime and Punishment: Greed, Pride and Guilt in Breaking Bad / Pablo Echart and Alberto N. García -- Black Mirror: ‘The National Anthem’. An Artistic Creation for an Institutional Crisis / Edisa Mondelo González , Alfonso Cuadrado Alvarado and Rubén Sánchez Trigos -- Filming the Domestic Apocalypse: Home and Hell in Narratives of the Crisis / Antonio Sánchez-Escalonilla and Silvia Herreros de Tejada -- Apocalyptic Landscapes in Times of Crisis: Aesthetic Connections between Fiction Cinema and Documentary Images Based on Reality / Raúl Álvarez Gómez and Araceli Rodríguez Mateos -- Facing the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession: The Biopic as a Socio-Cultural Response to the Collapse / Marta Frago -- Sex and Seduction at the End of Time: The Apocalypse in Digital Art / Alexandra Simon-López -- John Martin’s Marketing of a Modern Apocalypse / Helen Sutherland -- (Post)Apocalypse Now! David Mitchell’s Postmodern Fiction / Scott Dimovitz -- Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains: The Post-Apocalyptic Function of the University / Heidi Yeandle -- Post-Apocalyptic Identity: Alderney in the Spotlight / Sheila C. Bibb.