The End: 50 Apocalyptic Visions From Pop Culture That You Should Know About...Before It's Too Late

By Laura Barcella

People have been making predictions about how and when the world is going to end for ages. The End is a fun pop culture read about the top 50 movies, books, songs, and artworks—from the movie Shaun of the Dead to the song It's the End of the World as We Know It—about the apocalypse. Each item includes:
- A synopsis of the apocalyptic work
- Information about the apocalyptic theory behind it (from alien invasion to meteors, nuclear war, and natural disasters)
- An explanation about why this work is important in pop culture
Love doomsday talk and the art made about it? Check out this fun and entertaining read!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing
• Release date: Jan 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9780544053090

Laura Barcella

Laura Barcella is a freelance writer and editor who can't decide between New York and San Francisco. During the past ten-plus years, this pop-culture junkie and Washington, DC, native has written about feminism, music, news, and lifestyle topics for more than forty publications, including Salon.com, the Village Voice, ELLEGirl, Time Out New York, NYLON, Bust, CNN.com, and the Chicago Sun-Times. As far as other books go, Laura is the editor of the anthology Madonna and Me, a book of essays by female writers about Madonna (Soft Skull Press, March 2012). She has also contributed to the anthologies BitchFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism From the Pages of Bitch Magazine, Somebody's Child: Stories About Adoption, and It's All in Her Head, a forthcoming collection about women's mental health. When she's not writing or editing, she's reading magazines, at the movies, watching bad reality TV, eating imported gummy candy, or hanging out with animals (she has two cats and a dog, all rescues).