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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460266303321

Titolo

Apocalyptic projections : a study of past predictions, current trends and future intimations as related to film and literature / / edited by Annette M. Magid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-7880-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

813.087620938

Soggetti

Apocalypse in literature

Apocalypse in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART III:; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. Theories abounded in an attempt to prepare for calamity and plan for the future. Worldwide concern regarding a twenty-first century apocalypse, related to the 2012 Mayan Apocalyptic prediction, sparked renewed interest. Even though the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope. The majority of the papers included in Apocalyptic Projections were p...