Sentient vegetable claims end is near! : the graphic novels of Alan Moore -- Blue-footed boobies and other witnesses to the end : Kurt Vonnegut's apocalyptic novels -- A tortured state of mind : Terry Gilliam's New Jerusalem -- Apocalypse reloaded : the Matrix trilogy -- Willingly believing fiction : Robert Coover and apocalypse as metafiction -- All the expended faith : apocalyptism in Don DeLillo's novels
Summary
Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index
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