Small screen revelations
Subtitle: apocalypse in contemporary television
By: edited by James Aston and John Walliss
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 50; Bible in the modern world -- 50.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781907534782
Subjects: Television adaptations; Television broadcasting; Bible; Apocalypse in mass media; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 'See you tomorrow' : apocalyptic refusal in English culture  -- Andrew Fergus Wilson; title: World War III is upon us : exploring contemporary apocalyptic discourse in American televangelism  -- Holly Thomas; title: Making the millennialist mainstream : how television covered the apocalyptic predictions of Harold Camping  -- Jennie Chapman; title: Black Saturday : representing catastrophe  -- Roland Boer; title: From counterculture to mainstream : 2012 millennialism in your living room  -- Kevin Whitesides; title: Apocalyptic war in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Supernatural, and Battlestar Galactica  -- Gregory Stevenson; title: After the end : post-apocalyptic narratives in Lost, Jericho, and Battlestar Galactica  -- Erika Johnson-Lewis; title: The post-apocalyptic family in The Walking Dead  -- James Aston; title: Will the end of the world take place in your living room? Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles-- the apocalyptic prophecy continues  -- Rubina Ramji; title: Apocalyptic and prophetic : Revelation and mystery in the revival of Doctor Who  -- Mark Seton; title: 'The devil wears nada' : the Simpsons and the demythologisation of the apocalypse -- Raoul J. Adam.