Chapters in this book
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Editorial: Apocalyptic Imaginings
(2019)
This editorial shows the impact of apocalyptic images and topoi referring to the ongoing Brexit-process in the United Kingdom and, thereby the editorial builds a bridge to the articels of this issue that analyse how diverse ...
Reading Bond Films through the Lens of “Religion”. Discourse of “the West and the Rest”
(2019)
Religion has been absent from the study of James Bond films. Similarly, James Bond has been absent from studies on religion and popular culture. This article aims to fill the gap by examining 25 Bond films through the lens ...
Just Popular Entertainment or Longing for a Posthuman Eden?. The Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood‘s MaddAddam Trilogy
(2019)
In the context of the ecological crisis, tales of the apocalypse have become a regular feature of the contemporary cultural imaginary, be it in popular feature films, non-fictional texts, or dystopian novels. Margaret ...
Western Apocalyptic Time and Personal Authentic Time
(2019)
The concept of time is culturally dependent. During different periods in the history of Western culture, differing conceptions of times competed for primacy, sometimes contradicting one another, sometimes complementing ...
On (Dang) Quesadillas and Nachos. Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Religion in the Films of Jared Hess
(2019)
Across his cinema, the US, Mormon director Jared Hess has represented the Mexican Other in ambiguous ways that affirm the humanity of the US’s southern neighbors while at the same time signaling them as irreconcilably ...
Apocalypse as critical dystopia in modern popular music
(2019)
The last book of the New Testament has inspired countless narratives and cultural productions. In the realm of popular music the Apocalypse was embraced as synonymous of imminent catastrophe, generating a dystopian discourse. ...
