Reel Revelations: Apocalypse and Film
Reel Revelations: Apocalypse and Film (Apocalypse and Popular Culture) Co-edited by John Walliss and Lee Quinby | Oct 3, 2010
In the last decades, writers and directors have increasingly found the Book of Revelation a fitting cinematic muse for an age beset by possibilities of world destruction. Many apocalyptic films stay remarkably close to the idea of apocalypse as a revelation about the future, often quoting or using imagery from Revelation, as well as its Old Testament antecedents in Daniel, Ezekiel, and Isaiah. The apocalyptic paradigm often instigates social criticism.