TY  - BOOK
AU  - John Lynch
AU  - Alexander Darius Ornella
AU  - Teemu Taira
AU  - Russell C. Powell
AU  - David S. Dalton
AU  - Javier Campos Calvo-Sotelo
AU  - Bina Nir
AU  - Jennifer Woodward
AU  - Stephanie Bender
AB  - The thematic section of this issue of JRFM deals with apocalyptic imaginings in literature and film. The articles address issues such as authority, authenticity, belief, imagining social futures, and art as social laboratory. Throughout, the authors employ the lens of “the apocalyptic” to demonstrate how media can address broader socio-political and psychological issues. They can serve as a kind of social barometer to help us identify contemporary angst, anxieties, hopes, and dreams. Doing so, the authors highlight that “the apocalyptic” serves as useful analytical tool that allows us to learn something about society that might otherwise remain hidden. As such, they go back to the Greek origins of the word and show that “apocalyptic work” is the work of revealing and unveiling – both for artists and creators of media texts and for academics as scholars of contemporary culture.
DO  - 10.25364/05.05:2019.2.2
ID  - OAPEN ID: 46792
L1  - https://jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/issue/view/9
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/41025
PB  - Schüren Verlag
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783741000904
TI  - Apocalyptic Imaginings : Journal for Religion, Film and Media
ER  - 
