Escape Into the Future: Cultural Pessimism and Its Religious Dimension in Contemporary American Popular CultureBaylor University Press, 2007 - 271 páginas Escape into the Future analyzes the power of pessimism, showing links between present-day religious pessimism and the nihilism of popular culture. Stroup and Shuck rummage through an interesting and eclectic body of pop culture--from Fight Club to X-Files to the Left Behind series--pointing out the presence of pessimistic themes throughout. This volume identifies and illuminates the religious language used in these works to articulate America's need to escape from its present cultural path and, ultimately, provide hope that it might do so. |
Contenido
American Struggle with Progressive Action | 25 |
The Dialectic of Despair and Activism | 51 |
Fight Club and the Myth | 87 |
The Challenges | 115 |
Sightings of Cultural | 143 |
The Question of RealWorld Correlates to Fantasy Processes | 181 |
Bibliographical Essay | 219 |
Notes | 245 |
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