Escape into the future :cultural pessimism and its religious dimension in contemporary American popular culture /by John Stroup and Glenn W. Shuck.
Description
Secret agents : visions of escape, glimpses of hope -- Do we still want to believe : the X-Files and the American struggle with progressive action -- Perhaps today : the dialectic of despair and activism in popular evangelical literature -- God's unwanted : Fight Club and the myth of total revolution? -- Relocating the American dream : the challenges and ambiguities of contemporary cultural pessimism -- The quest for a real-world correlate : sightings of cultural pessimism in the domains of scholarship and journalism -- The question of real-world correlates to fantasy processes of decline : the deep structure of decay, or, descent into the engine room of the RMS Titanic -- Epilogue: Into the great wide open.
xx, 313 p. ;23 cm.
Book Details
Author
Stroup, John
Place Published
City
Waco, Tex.
Date Published
circa 2007
Publication Subjects
Religion and culture--United States.
Popular culture--Religious aspects.
Popular culture--United States.
Call No.
BL2525 .S78 2007
ISBN
9781932792522 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2007026453
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.