How to Survive the Apocalypse

<DIV><I>Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent</I><BR /><BR /><I>The world is going to hell. </I>So begins this book pointing to the prevalence of <I>apocalypse</I> — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.<BR /><BR /> In <I>How to Survive the Apocalypse</I> Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in <I>Battlestar Galactica</I> to the purging of innocence in <I>Game of Thrones</I> to the hordes of zombies in <I>The Walking Dead</I> — and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now about how we conceive of our life together including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties.<BR /><BR /> Besides analyzing the dsytopian shift in popular culture Joustra and Wilkinson also suggest how Christians can live faithfully and with integrity in such a cultural context.</DIV>