How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World
May 2016 · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent
The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.
In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead — 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.
The world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.
In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead — 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.
About the author
Robert Joustra is director of the Centre for Christian Scholarship and assistant professor of international studies at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario.
Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at TheNew York Times. Her work has been featured in a wide variety of publications, including Rolling Stone, Vulture, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Christianity Today. She has been a guest commentator on numerous radio, podcast, and television programs such as MSNBC’s Morning Joe, CBS News, PBS Newshour, BBC America’s Talking Movies, and NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She is the author of We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women, and (cowritten with Robert Joustra) How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cyclons, and Politics at the End of the World.
Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at TheNew York Times. Her work has been featured in a wide variety of publications, including Rolling Stone, Vulture, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Christianity Today. She has been a guest commentator on numerous radio, podcast, and television programs such as MSNBC’s Morning Joe, CBS News, PBS Newshour, BBC America’s Talking Movies, and NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She is the author of We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women, and (cowritten with Robert Joustra) How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cyclons, and Politics at the End of the World.
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