Global Media Apocalypse: Pleasure, Violence and the Cultural Imaginings of Doom

Lewis, Jeff

The modern world seems trapped between fantasies of infinite pleasure and the prospects of total global catastrophe. Global Media Apocalypse explores these contrary imaginings through an evolving cultural ecology of violence. Articulated through the global media, these apocalyptic fantasies express a profoundly human condition of crisis.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349434749

DOI: 10.1057/9781137005458

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 228