An edition of Escape into the future (2007)

Escape into the future

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An edition of Escape into the future (2007)

Escape into the future

cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture

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Escape into the Future analyzes the power of pessimism, showing links between present-day religious pessimism and the nihilism of popular culture. Stroup and Shuck rummage through interesting and eclectic body of pop culture - from Fight Club to X-Files to the Left Behind series -pointing out the presence of pessimistic themes throughout. This volume identifies and illuminates the religious language used in these works to articulate America's need to escape from its present cultural path and, ultimately, provide hope that it might do so.

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Baylor University Press
Language
English
Pages
313

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Subjects

Religion and culture, Popular culture, Religious aspects, Religion, Religious aspects of Popular culture, Pessimismus, Christentum, Kulturpessimismus, Pop-Kultur, Kulturelle Identität, Work, social aspects, Occupations, Work, psychological aspects, Quality of work life, Work, Social aspects, Stigma (Social psychology), Occupational prestige, Psychological aspects

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United States

Times

1960-
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Cover of: Escape into the Future
Escape into the Future: Cultural Pessimism and its Religious Dimension in Contemporary American Popular Culture
September 1, 2007, Baylor University Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Escape into the future
Escape into the future: cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture
2007, Baylor University Press
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Table of Contents

Secret agents : visions of escape, glimpses of hope
Do we still want to believe : the X-Files and the American struggle with progressive action
Perhaps today : the dialectic of despair and activism in popular evangelical literature
God's unwanted : Fight Club and the myth of total revolution?
Relocating the American dream : the challenges and ambiguities of contemporary cultural pessimism
The quest for a real-world correlate : sightings of cultural pessimism in the domains of scholarship and journalism
The question of real-world correlates to fantasy processes of decline : the deep structure of decay, or, descent into the engine room of the RMS Titanic
Epilogue: Into the great wide open.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Waco, Tex

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.0973
Library of Congress
BL2525 .S78 2007

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Pagination
xx, 313 p. ;
Number of pages
313

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18864546M
ISBN 13
9781932792522
LCCN
2007026453
Library Thing
6590065
Goodreads
2269586

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