The Last Midnight: Essays on Apocalyptic Narratives in Millennial Media

by Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, Donald E. Palumbo, et al.

Book Overview

Do you find yourself contemplating the imminent end of the world? Do you wonder how society might reorganize itself to cope with global cataclysm? (Have you begun hoarding canned goods and ammunition...?)

Visions of an apocalypse began to dominate mass media well before the year 2000. Yet narratives since then present decidedly different spins on cultural anxieties about terrorism, disease, environmental collapse, worldwide conflict and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476663238
• ISBN13: 9781476663234
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher