The Last Midnight ─ Essays on Apocalyptic Narratives in Millennial Media

This anthology compiles 20 essays on apocalyptic themes in recent film, television, video games, webisodes, and smartphone apps. English, media, communication, and other scholars from the US, Europe, and China specifically look at The Walking Dead, Doomsday Preppers, Battlestar Galactica, 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, Snowpiercer, Contagion, Left Behind, RoboCop, Fido, The Hunger Games, Dark Angel, Divergent, Insurgent, Edge of Tomorrow, X-Men: Days of Future Past, In the Flesh, The 100, Cloverfield, Pacific Rim, Godzilla, The World's End, Children of Men, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, H+, XCOM: Enemy Within, and Zombies, Run!, and themes like anxiety, culture, values, class, corporate power, globalization, memory, identity, simulation, psychology, and inevitability. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Leisa A. Clark has published on women’s issues in the classroom and on Xena: Warrior Princess. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. Amanda Firestone is an assistant professor at the University of Tampa in the Department of Communication, teaching media studies and digital identity. Mary F. Pharr is a professor emeritus of English at Florida Southern College. She lives in Lakeland, Florida. Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina. C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies.