Escape into the future
Subtitle: cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture
By: John Stroup and Glenn W. Shuck.
Contributors: Shuck, Glenn W.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781932792522
Subjects: Religion and culture -- United States; Popular culture -- Religious aspects; Popular culture -- United States; United States -- Religion -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Secret agents : visions of escape, glimpses of hope; title: Do we still want to believe : the X-Files and the American struggle with progressive action; title: Perhaps today : the dialectic of despair and activism in popular evangelical literature; title: God's unwanted : Fight Club and the myth of total revolution?; title: Relocating the American dream : the challenges and ambiguities of contemporary cultural pessimism; title: The quest for a real-world correlate : sightings of cultural pessimism in the domains of scholarship and journalism; title: The question of real-world correlates to fantasy processes of decline : the deep structure of decay, or, descent into the engine room of the RMS Titanic; title: Epilogue: Into the great wide open.