Disaster Movies and the ‘Peak Oil’ Movement: Does Popular Culture Encourage Eco-Apocalyptic Beliefs in the United States?
Using two large-scale surveys, I argue that the prevalence of apocalyptic popular culture influences apocalyptic beliefs in the United States. I focus especially on Hollywood disaster movies of the 1990s and 2000s, most of which deal with environmental themes, and participants in the ‘peak oil’ move...
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| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2013
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2013, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 289-314 |
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Apocalypticism
B Climate Change B media influence B Popular Culture B resource depletion B Peak oil B disaster movies |
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