Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index.
Contents:
About the editors. Barbara Brodman -- Apocalyptic chic : post-apocalyptic images in twenty-first-century graphic arts, film and literature / James E. Dean -- "Ic pa beheold pone ormaetan lig" : Anglo-Saxon constructions of the apocalypse legend as religious and communcal threats of damnation / Alex M. Milmine -- The symbiosis of Norse and medieval Christian eschatology in DC Vertigo's Lucifer series (2000-2006) / Katherine Allocco -- Ezekiel's return to the apocalypse / Maren Conrad -- Beginning at the end : romantic visions of the last man in post-apocalyptic nationalism / Casey Ratto -- The textuality of materiality : Will Sell's The book of Dave / Daniel Schaber -- Styling the post-apocalyptic self : blankets and rags, skin and bones, and the fabric of power / Sarah Heaton -- Post-apocalyptic fiction in Canada after 9/11 : a future based on care / Annika Rosanowski -- "All at once the birds were everywhere" : Hitchcock and the avian apocalypse / Victoria Williams -- Do cybraceros dream of a good night's sleep? / Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez and Claudia Schaefer -- Post-apocalyptic dread and The planet of the apes / Mark Poindexter -- The place of faith, doubt and sacrament in the post-apocalyptic worlds of The leftovers and The walking dead / Scott Culpepper -- When worlds collide : a study of detective/sci-fi fusion in Ben H. Winters' The last policeman trilogy / Christine A. Jackson -- Wondering the digital wastelands : the interactive images and legends of disaster : desire and ideology in post-apocalyptic videogames! / Stephen J. Webley -- Surrounded by decay : apocalyptic fascination in the modern world / Alyssa Ryan -- Apocalyptic chic : post-apocalyptic images in twenty-first-century graphic arts, film and literature / Barbara Brodman -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- About the contributors -- About the editors.
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