The apocalypse is everywhere

a popular history of America's favorite nightmare

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The apocalypse is everywhere
Anne Collier Rehill
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Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: Ubiquitous cultural expressions
Apocalyptic warnings from TV
To the White House
Doomsday broadcasting on Comedy Central
Homer Simpson and the rapture
Party in hell on South Park
Using Revelation as a template : the left behind series
Apocalyptic brutality : Cormac McCarthy
Part II: How we inherited the book of Revelation
The apocalypse emerges from ancient ideas
From the Hebrew distillation to Islamic interpretations
Modern apocalyptic source : John's book of Revelation
Christianity conquers Europe : the Middle Ages
Religious challenges and imagining no apocalypse
Christianity and Revelation cross the Atlantic
Part III: Acting out the apocalypse in the new world
Apocalypse in literature and film
More doomsday tales
Armageddon hits the big screen
Eternity in comics and graphic novels
Judgment Day in music and art
TV and games to the rescue
Apocalyptic fun in your own backyard.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Santa Barbara, Calif

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Dewey Decimal Class
228.00973/090511
Library of Congress
BL503 .R44 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL23735955M
ISBN 13
9780313354380, 9780313354397
LCCN
2009038192

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