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THE AFTERLIFE IN POPULAR CULTURE: HEAVEN HELL UNDERWRLD

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<P>What happens to us when we die? The book seeks to explore how that question has been answered in American popular culture. It begins with five framing essays that provide historical and intellectual background on ideas about the afterlife in Western culture. These essays are followed by over 100 entries, each focusing on specific cultural products or authors that feature the afterlife front and center. Entries topics include novels, film, television shows, plays, works of nonfiction, graphic novels, and more, all of which address some aspect of what may await us after our passing. This book is unique in marrying a historical overview of the afterlife with detailed analyses of particular cultural products, such as films and novels. In addition, it covers these topics in non-specialist language, written with a high school and college audience in mind. The book provides historical context for contemporary depictions of the afterlife addressed in the entries, which deal specifically with work produced in the 20th and 21st centuries.</P>

The Afterlife in Popular Culture

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Introduction.
1: Thematic Essays.
2: Plato and Soul/Body Dualism.
3: Resurrection.
4: The Undead, Ghosts, Angels, Demons, and Spirits.
5: Digital Afterlife.
6: A&#x2013;Z Entries.
7: A.
8: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Seth Grahame-Smith).
9: &#x201C;Afterlife&#x201D; (Stephen King).
10: &#x201C;The Afterlife&#x201D; (Paul Simon).
11: The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There&#x2019;s Life after Death (Annie Kagan).
12: All Dogs Go to Heaven.
13: Always.
14: American Gods (Neil Gaiman).
15: Anderson, George.
16: Angels in America (Tony Kushner).
17: Angels in the Outfield.
18: B.
19: Beetlejuice.
20: Before I Fall (Lauren Oliver).
21: The Bishop&#x2019;s Wife.
22: Black Panther (Film and Comic Book).
23: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
24: C.
25: Cabin in the Sky.
26: Camille.
27: Carousel.
28: City of Angels.
29: Coco.
30: Constantine.
31: D.
32: Dead Like Me.
33: Defending Your Life.
34: Dracula.
35: E.
36: Edward, John.
37: Elsewhere (Gabrielle Zevin).
38: Everlost (Neal Shusterman).
39: Every Day (David Levithan).
40: F.
41: Field of Dreams.
42: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom).
43: Flatliners.
44: For One More Day (Mitch Albom).
45: Forever.
46: G.
47: Ghost.
48: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
49: A Ghost Story.
50: Ghost Town.
51: Ghost Whisperer.
52: The Good Place.
53: Grace: A Novel (Natashia De&#x00F3;n).
54: The Green Pastures.
55: Groundhog Day.
56: H.
57: Heaven Can Wait (1943).
58: Heaven Can Wait (1978).
59: Heaven Is for Real.
60: Henry, Tyler.
61: Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
62: Hereafter.
63: The Horn Blows at Midnight.
64: I.
65: I Am Legend.
66: I Married an Angel.
67: I Walked with a Zombie.
68: If I Stay (Gayle Forman).
69: In Heaven as on Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife (M. Scott Peck).
70: It&#x2019;s a Wonderful Death (Sarah Schmitt).
71: It&#x2019;s a Wonderful Life.
72: K.
73: The Kominsky Method.
74: L.
75: Left Behind (Book Series).
76: Left Behind (Film Franchise).
77: &#x201C;Let the Mystery Be&#x201D; (Iris DeMent).
78: Let There Be Light.
79: Life after Death (The Notorious B.I.G.).
80: Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders).
81: Long Island Medium.
82: The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold).
83: Lucifer.
84: M.
85: Medium.
86: Michael.
87: Moody, Raymond.
88: My Life after Death (Erik Medhus [Spirit]).
89: N.
90: Neal, Mary.
91: &#x201C;A Nice Place to Visit&#x201D; (The Twilight Zone).
92: 90 Minutes in Heaven (Don Piper, with Cecil Murphey).
93: O.
94: The OA.
95: On the Transmigration of Souls (John Adams).
96: The Originals.
97: Outward Bound/Between Two Worlds.
98: P.
99: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith).
100: Proof of Heaven (Eben Alexander).
101: R.
102: The Rapture.
103: Rapture-Palooza.
104: Revival (Comic Book Series).
105: Revival (Stephen King).
106: Riverworld.
107: Romero, George.
108: A Rumor of Angels.
109: S.
110: The Shack (William P. Young).
111: Six Feet Under.
112: The Sixth Man.
113: The Sixth Sense.
114: Sunday Morning Rapture.
115: T.
116: Thirteen Reasons Why (Novel by Jay Asher and Television Series).
117: This Is the End.
118: Touched by an Angel.
119: True Blood.
120: Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt).
121: Twilight (Book Series and Film Franchise).
122: U.
123: Unlikely Angel.
124: V.
125: The Vampire Chronicles, Part 1 (Book Series).
126: The Vampire Chronicles, Part 2 (Book Series).
127: The Vampire Diaries.
128: Van Praagh, James.
129: W.
130: The Walking Dead.
131: Warm Bodies (Novel by Isaac Marion and Film).
132: What Dreams May Come.
133: Where I Want to Be (Adele Griffen).
134: White Tears (Hari Kunzru).
135: White Zombie.
136: World War Z.
137: Wristcutters: A Love Story.
138: Z.
139: Zombieland.
Index.
About the Author.

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