[ebooks] Screen Ecologies: Art; Media; and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region (Leonardo Book Series) by Larissa Hjorth; Sarah Pink; Kristen Sharp; Linda Williams in Arts-Photography

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Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bentThe world is going to hell. So begins this book; pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse mdash; cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios mdash; in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories mdash; from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead mdash; and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now; about how we conceive of our life together; including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties. Besides analyzing the dsytopian shift in popular culture; Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.