The End: 50 Apocalyptic Visions From Pop Culture That You Should Know About...Before It's Too Late

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Zest, Jul 24, 2012 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 176 pages
You’ve probably heard rumors that the end of the world is going to happen in the year 2012. But people have been making predictions about how and when the world is going to end for ages. The End is a fun, comprehensive, pop culture read about the 50 top movies, books, songs, comics, artworks, and plays - from the movie Shaun of the Dead to the pop song It’s the End of the World as We Know It - that have been created about the apocalypse. Each item includes:     
  • A synopsis of the apocalyptic work
  • Information about the apocalyptic theory behind it (from alien invasion to meteors, nuclear war, and natural disasters)
  • An explanation about why this work is important in pop culture
Love doomsday talk and the art that is made about it? Check out this fun and entertaining read!

About the author (2012)

Laura Barcella is a contributing editor at xoJane and a contributing writer at The Fix. She edited Madonna & Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, an anthology of essays about Madonna by women writers, and is the author of a pop culture guide to the apocalypse called The End: 50 Apocalyptic Visions From Pop Culture That You Should Know About… Before It’s Too Late. Laura has written features, profiles, essays, and more for Salon, Esquire.com, the Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, Elle.com, Refinery29, the Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out New York, AlterNet, BUST, Elle Girl, CNN.com, and NYLON. An expert on pop culture, feminism, and lifestyles, she lives in San Francisco, California.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe End: 50 Apocalyptic Visions From Pop Culture That You Should Know About...Before It's Too Late
AuthorsLaura Barcella, Jill Buck
Editionillustrated
PublisherZest, 2012
ISBN0544053095, 9780544053090
Length176 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / General
  
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