Name: The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination
SKU: 56858957
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Author: Kevin O'Neill
ISBN: 9781440868580

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The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kevin O'Neill

Publisher

Greenwood

Language

English

Pages

392

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

25.6x18.2x2.8 cm

Weight

0.95 kg.

ISBN13

9781440868580

Synopsis "The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination"

The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination gives students a fresh look at how Americans view the afterlife, helping readers understand how it's depicted in popular culture. What happens to us when we die? The book seeks to explore how that question has been answered in American popular culture. It begins with five framing essays that provide historical and intellectual background on ideas about the afterlife in Western culture. These essays are followed by more than 100 entries, each focusing on specific cultural products or authors that feature the afterlife front and center. Entry topics include novels, film, television shows, plays, works of nonfiction, graphic novels, and more, all of which address some aspect of what may await us after our passing. This book is unique in marrying a historical overview of the afterlife with detailed analyses of particular cultural products, such as films and novels. In addition, it covers these topics in nonspecialist language, written with a student audience in mind. The book provides historical context for contemporary depictions of the afterlife addressed in the entries, which deal specifically with work produced in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Kevin O'Neill

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Kevin O'Neill (1953-2022) fue un icónico ilustrador de cómics británico, cocreador de series clave como Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law, y especialmente famoso por su trabajo junto a Alan Moore en La Liga de los Caballeros Extraordinarios, conocido por su estilo detallado y provocador, dejando un gran legado en el noveno arte desde sus inicios en 2000 AD hasta DC y obras independientes.

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