Pop Apocalypse

Author : Lee Konstantinou
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061868481

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Pop Apocalypse by Lee Konstantinou Pdf

The United States and its Freedom Coalition allies are conducting serial invasions across the globe, including an attack on the anti-capitalist rebels of Northern California. The Middle East—now a single consumerist Caliphate led by Lebanese pop singer Caliph Fred—is in an uproar after an attack on the al-Aqsa Mosque gets televised on the Holy Land Channel. The world is on the brink of a total radioactive, no-survivors war, and human­kind's last hope is Eliot R. Vanderthorpe, Jr., celebrity heir, debauched party animal, and Elvis impersonation scholar. But Eliot's got his own problems. His evangelical dad is breeding red heifers in anticipation of the Rapture. Eliot's dissertation is in the toilet. And he has a doppelgänger. An evil doppelgänger.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:77702935

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POP APOCALYPSE. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert McCammon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501131424

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Swan Song by Robert McCammon Pdf

In a nightmarish, post-holocaust world, an ancient evil roams a devastated America, gathering the forces of human greed and madness, searching for a child named Swan who possesses the gift of life.

Author : David Dark
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587430558

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Everyday Apocalypse by David Dark Pdf

Mining popular media, Dark redefines the term apocalypse as a more honest, watchful way of being in the world and higlights how the imagination can expose our moral condition.

Author : Lee Konstantinou
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015080874061

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Pop Apocalypse by Lee Konstantinou Pdf

A fresh and intelligent debut that imagines the world of 2029, where many of the crises faced today--from celebrity mania to reckless foreign policy and ubiquitous government surveillance--have escalated to ridiculous new heights.

Author : Jake Horsley
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 081083670X

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The Blood Poets: Millennial blues : from Apocalypse now to The matrix by Jake Horsley Pdf

Increasingly, society questions the connection between violence in entertainment and violence in life. Moralists and censors would reply resoundingly that media violence and social violence are directly linked, but others ask the deeper question: Why do people feel the need to create images of violence, and why do audiences continually watch them? In this thought-provoking and insightful study of American violent cinema, author Jake Horsley attempts to answer these questions by tying together the multiple disciplines of psychology, criminology, censorship, and anthropology. Horsley divides the forty years of his study into two volumes: American Chaos: From Touch of Evil to The Terminator, and Millennial Blues: From Apocalypse Now to The Matrix. These volumes aim to provide both a critical overview of the films themselves and a cultural study of the social and psychological factors relating to the demand for screen violence. By doing so, Horsley raises a new dialogue between scholars and movie buffs to examine the need to portray and the need to watch violent films.

Author : Diletta De Cristofaro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350085794

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The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel by Diletta De Cristofaro Pdf

Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before. But what is at stake in the contemporary shift to apocalyptic narratives in which the utopian end of time is removed? The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel offers an innovative critical model for our cultural obsession with 'the end' by focussing on the significance of time in the 21st-century post-apocalyptic novel and challenging traditional apocalyptic logic. Once confined to the genre of science fiction, the increasing popularity of end-of-the-world narratives has caused apocalyptic writing to feature in the work of some of contemporary literature's most well-known fiction writers. Considering novels by Will Self, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Emily St. John Mandel, Jeanette Winterson and others, Diletta De Cristofaro frames the contemporary apocalyptic imagination as a critique of modernity's apocalyptic conception of time and history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book historicises apocalyptic beliefs by exploring how relentlessly they have shaped the modern world.

Author : Melis Mulazimoglu Erkal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848883406

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Apocalypse Revisited: A Critical Study on End Times by Melis Mulazimoglu Erkal Pdf

Apocalypse, Revisited: A Critical Study on End Times explores why and how Apocalypse has been revisited in myriad contexts from literature to history, religion to social life and media to popular culture.

Author : Willard Wells
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387098371

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Apocalypse When? by Willard Wells Pdf

This book will be a key trailblazer in a new and upcoming field. The author’s predictive approach relies on simple and intuitive probability formulations that will appeal to readers with a modest knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, and statistics. Wells’ carefully erected theory stands on a sure footing and thus should serve as the basis of many rational predictions of survival in the face of not only natural disasters such as hits by asteroids or comets, but perhaps more surprisingly from man-made hazards arising from genetic engineering or robotics. Any formula for predicting human survival will invite controversy. Dr Wells counters anticipated criticism with a thorough approach in which four lines of reasoning are used to arrive at the same survival formula. One uses empirical survival statistics for business firms and stage shows. Another is based on uncertainty of risk rates. The third, more abstract, invokes Laplace’s principle of insufficient reason and involves an observer’s random arrival in the lifetime of the entity (the human race) in question. The fourth uses Bayesian theory. The author carefully explains and gives examples of the conditions under which his principle is valid and provides evidence that can counteract the arguments of critics who would reject it entirely. His deflection of possible criticisms results from two major premises: selecting the proper random variable and “reference class” to make predictions, and the recognition that if one does not know the law that governs a process, then the best prediction that can be made is his own formula.

Author : Francesco-Alessio Ursini,Adnan Mahmutovic,Frank Bramlett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476668017

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Visions of the Future in Comics by Francesco-Alessio Ursini,Adnan Mahmutovic,Frank Bramlett Pdf

Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The contributors investigate portrayals in different stylistic traditions--manga, bande desinees--from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The picture that emerges documents the elaborate storylines and complex universes comics creators have been crafting for decades.

Author : Katherine E. Sugg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476667850

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Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture by Katherine E. Sugg Pdf

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, global pandemics and dystopian world orders fill our screens--typically with a singular figure or tenacious group tasked with saving or salvaging the world. Why are stories of End Times crisis so popular with audiences? And why is the hero so often a white man who overcomes personal struggles and major obstacles to lead humanity toward a restored future? This book examines the familiar trope of the hero and the recasting of contemporary anxieties in films like The Walking Dead, Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road. Some have familiar roots in Western cultural traditions yet many question popular assumptions about heroes and heroism to tell new and fascinating stories about race, gender and society and the power of individuals to change the world.

Author : Stephen Joyce
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319939520

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Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse by Stephen Joyce Pdf

This book confronts the question of why our culture is so fascinated by the apocalypse. It ultimately argues that while many see the post-apocalyptic genre as reflective of contemporary fears, it has actually co-evolved with the transformations in our mediascape to become a perfect vehicle for transmedia storytelling. The post-apocalyptic offers audiences a portal to a fantasy world that is at once strange and familiar, offers a high degree of internal consistency and completeness, and allows for a diversity of stories by different creative teams in the same story world. With case studies of franchises such as The Walking Dead and The Terminator, Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse offers analyses of how shifts in media industries and reception cultures have promoted a new kind of open, world-building narrative across film, television, video games, and print. For transmedia scholars and fans of the genre, this book shows how the end of the world is really just the beginning...

Author : Laura Barcella
Publisher : Zest Books ™
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541582088

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The End by Laura Barcella Pdf

People have been making predictions about how and when the world is going to end for ages. The End is a fun pop culture read about the top 50 movies, books, songs, and artworks—from the movie Shaun of the Dead to the song It's the End of the World as We Know It—about the apocalypse. Each item includes: - A synopsis of the apocalyptic work - Information about the apocalyptic theory behind it (from alien invasion to meteors, nuclear war, and natural disasters) - An explanation about why this work is important in pop culture Love doomsday talk and the art made about it? Check out this fun and entertaining read!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004537996

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Music in the Apocalyptic Mode by Anonim Pdf

In this volume, the first panoramic study of music in the apocalyptic mode, an international and trans-disciplinary array of scholars and composers explore the resonance of the ancient biblical Revelation of John across the centuries in musical works as diverse as El Cant de la Sibil·la, the Dies Irae, cantatas and oratorios by Bach and Telemann, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet, African American Spirituals, Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Christian “ApokRock,” Hip-hop, Grimes’s album Miss Anthropocene, and the songs of Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. This innovative volume will engage scholars, students, and all those interested in the intersection of music, religion, history, and popular culture.

Author : Robert M. Geraci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199964000

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Apocalyptic AI by Robert M. Geraci Pdf

Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines and live forever in cyberspace, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea. Robert Geraci points out that the rhetoric of 'Apocalyptic AI' is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity.