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Apocalyptic Visions and Warnings in Literature and Film
by Matthew B. Hill
This comprehensive resource explores dystopian and apocalyptic stories across literature, film, television, and video games—showing how these imaginative worlds reflect real concerns about technology, government control, environmental threats, and human nature. Through 150+ encyclopedia entries and critical essays on themes like war, pandemics, and totalitarianism, readers gain deeper insight into why these cautionary tales matter and what they reveal about our own world.
Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness. Dystopian States of America provides students and researchers with an illuminating resource for understanding the impact and relevance of dystopian and apocalyptic works in contemporary American culture. Through its wide survey of dystopian works in numerous forms and genres, the book encourages readers to connect with these works of fiction and understand how the catastrophically grim or disquieting worlds they portray offer insights into our own current situation. In addition to providing more than 150 encyclopedia articles on a large and representative sample of dystopian/apocalyptic narratives in fiction, film, television, and video games (including popular works that often escape critical inquiry), Dystopian States of America features a suite of critical essays on five themes-war, pandemics, totalitarianism, environmental calamity, and technological overreach-that serve as the foundation for most dystopian worlds of the imagination. These offerings complement one another, enabling readers to explore dystopian conceptions of America and the world from multiple perspectives and vantage points.
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
393
9781440873393
2022-09-13
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