Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bent
The world is going to hell.
So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of
apocalypse
— cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment.
In
How to Survive the Apocalypse
Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories — from the Cylons in
Battlestar Galactica
to the purging of innocence in
Game of Thrones
to the hordes of zombies in
The Walking Dead
— 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.
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.