Global Media Apocalypse

Global Media Apocalypse
Author :
Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 239
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781137005458
ISBN-13 : 1137005459
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Global Media Apocalypse by : Jeff Lewis

Download or read book Global Media Apocalypse written by Jeff Lewis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern world seems trapped between fantasies of infinite pleasure and the prospects of total global catastrophe. Global Media Apocalypse explores these contrary imaginings through an evolving cultural ecology of violence. Articulated through the global media, these apocalyptic fantasies express a profoundly human condition of crisis.


Global Media Apocalypse Related Books

Media and the Apocalypse
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Peter Lang

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Responding to a plethora of media representing end times, this anthology of essays examines pop culture's fascination with end of the world or apocalyptic narra
Black Moon
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Kenneth Calhoun
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-04 - Publisher: Hogarth

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls “Gripping and expertly constructed.�
Theory for the World to Come
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-15 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events,
Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Stephen Joyce
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-21 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 r
Global Media Apocalypse
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Jeff Lewis
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-15 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The modern world seems trapped between fantasies of infinite pleasure and the prospects of total global catastrophe. Global Media Apocalypse explores these cont