Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse [Hardcover]

The culture of twenty-first century America revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom. Foster explores this culture of the apocalypse, from hoarding and gluttony to visions of the post-apocalyptic world.1. Disposable Bodies 2. Bunker Mentality 3. Buy Before You Die 4. Embracing the Apocalypse 5. The End of the Future

Foster, an avowed radical environmentalist, turns a dark lens on film and television of the last 60 years . . . 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.' . . . This book will intrigue those interested in media studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upperdivision undergraduates and graduate students. - CHOICE

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster writes passionately about the debased media-scape of our death-worshipping culture. 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. 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

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

In her newest book, Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster explores lcr