Foster's book is a wakeup call to take notice of the preciousness of our common humanity, before we confront the death of our planet in real life.' - Valérie K. Through our desire for what she terms 'apocotainment' - the apocalypse as entertainment for the masses - we eagerly digest the mediatized horrors of our planet's ecological destruction on screen as we continue to deny it as reality in our own front yards. 'Gwendolyn Audrey Foster challenges us to confront the apocalyptic narratives of our time in her engaging and thought-provoking book. 'In her newest book, Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster explores the excesses of late-capitalist American consumerism her exploration of media representation of gluttony, hoarding, waste, and debt is compelling reading for anyone interested in contemporary popular culture.' - Patrice Petro, Professor, English, Film Studies, and Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA 'In this urgent and important book, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster exposes and explores the multiform obscenities - of violence, wealth, consumption, ownership, avarice, aggression, and more - that infect the politics, businesses, entertainments, and mentalities of today's narcissistic, fear-peddling, death-celebrating culture, shining a laser-sharp spotlight on excesses of sexism, neo-liberalism, speciesism, capitalism, and nationalism in the contemporary media.' - David Sterritt, Columbia University, USA Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded and why thats. Tokyo Hot pp072 Tokyo hot POV shoot fallen heaven Apocalypse No. Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse is not a comforting book, but it is an eloquent call from a voice crying in the wilderness: a warning that we ignore at our peril.' Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor, English, Wayne State University, USA peoples prejudices: is Pleasure the most revealing film about porn ever. She probes into our collective fascination with an Earth without us, even as we continue activities that are sure to lead to yet more ecological devastation and mass extinction. 'Gwendolyn Audrey Foster writes passionately about the debased media-scape of our death-worshipping culture. Upperdivision undergraduates and graduate students.' - CHOICE This book will intrigue those interested in media studies. Foster's firstperson observations and reactions enliven these topics but not nearly so much as the repeated use of such phrases as 'family friendly torture porn.'. Foster explores this culture of the apocalypse.

so much as the repeated use of such phrases as family friendly torture porn. The culture of twenty-first century America revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom.

'Foster, an avowed radical environmentalist, turns a dark lens on film and television of the last 60 years. Foster explores this culture of the apocalypse, from hoarding and gluttony.

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