The apocalypse is everywhere : a popular history of America's favorite nightmare /
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Praeger,
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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.