Religious Imaging in Millennialist America Dark Gnosis /

• Main Author: Crawford, Ashley (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Popular Culture.; Motion pictures and television.; Religion and Society.; Sociology of Religion.; Popular Culture .; Screen Studies.
• Physical Description: VIII, 316 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319991726
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99172-6

Ashley Crawford investigates how such figures as Ben Marcus, Matthew Barney, and David Lynch-among other artists, novelists, and film directors-utilize religious themes and images via Christianity, Judaism, and Mormonism to form essentially mutated variations of mainstream belief systems. He seeks to determine what drives contemporary artists to deliver implicitly religious imagery within a 'secular' context. Particularly, how religious heritage and language, and the mutations within those, have impacted American culture to partake in an aesthetic of apocalyptism that underwrites it.