Overview

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.

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Author:   Kevin O'Neill
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Weight:   0.964kg
ISBN:  

9781440868580

ISBN 10:   1440868581
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   17 June 2022
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Introduction Thematic Essays Plato and Soul/Body Dualism Resurrection The Undead, Ghosts, Angels, Demons, and Spirits Digital Afterlife A–Z Entries Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ""Afterlife"" ""The Afterlife"" The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life after Death All Dogs Go to Heaven Always American Gods Anderson, George Angels in America Angels in the Outfield Beetlejuice Before I Fall The Bishop's Wife Black Panther Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cabin in the Sky Camille Carousel City of Angels Coco Constantine Dead Like Me Defending Your Life Dracula Edward, John Elsewhere Everlost Every Day Field of Dreams The Five People You Meet in Heaven Flatliners For One More Day Forever Ghost The Ghost and Mrs. Muir A Ghost Story Ghost Town Ghost Whisperer The Good Place Grace: A Novel The Green Pastures Groundhog Day Heaven Can Wait (1943) Heaven Can Wait (1978) Heaven Is for Real Henry, Tyler Here Comes Mr. Jordan Hereafter The Horn Blows at Midnight I Am Legend I Married an Angel I Walked with a Zombie If I Stay In Heaven as on Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife It's a Wonderful Death It's a Wonderful Life The Kominsky Method Left Behind (Book Series) Left Behind (Film Franchise) ""Let the Mystery Be"" Let There Be Light Life after Death Lincoln in the Bardo Long Island Medium The Lovely Bones Lucifer Medium Michael Moody, Raymond My Life after Death Neal, Mary ""A Nice Place to Visit"" 90 Minutes in Heaven The OA On the Transmigration of Souls The Originals Outward Bound/Between Two Worlds Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Proof of Heaven The Rapture Rapture-Palooza Revival (Comic Book Series) Revival (Stephen King) Riverworld Romero, George A Rumor of Angels The Shack Six Feet Under The Sixth Man The Sixth Sense Sunday Morning Rapture Thirteen Reasons Why This Is the End Touched by an Angel True Blood Tuck Everlasting Twilight Unlikely Angel The Vampire Chronicles, Part 1 The Vampire Chronicles, Part 2 The Vampire Diaries Van Praagh, James The Walking Dead Warm Bodies What Dreams May Come Where I Want to Be White Tears White Zombie World War Z Wristcutters: A Love Story Zombieland Index"

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Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students. * Choice *

Author Information

Kevin O'Neill is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Redlands. In 1969, he cofounded the Johnston Center for Individualized Study.

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