TY  - BOOK
AU  - Platen,Petra
AU  - Sadri,Houman
TI  - Broken Mirrors: Representations of Apocalypses and Dystopias in Popular Culture 
T2  - Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
SN  - 9781000753707
AV  - PN56.A69 B76 2019
U1  - 809.93353 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Apocalypse in literature
KW  - Apocalypse in motion pictures
KW  - Dystopias in literature
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
N1  - Description based upon print version of record
N2  - Dystopian stories and visions of the Apocalypse are nothing new; however in recent years there has been a noticeable surge in the output of this type of theme in literature, art, comic books/graphic novels, video games, TV shows, etc. The reasons for this are not exactly clear; it may partly be as a result of post 9/11 anxieties, the increasing incidence of extreme weather and/or environmental anomalies, chaotic fluctuations in the economy and the uncertain and shifting political landscape in the west in general. Investigating this highly topical and pervasive theme from interdisciplinary perspectives this volume presents various angles on the main topic through critical analyses of selected works of fiction, film, TV shows, video games and more
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429280634
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -