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The volume is divided into two parts, separated by an Intermezzo. The first part, thDystopia Mattersoe, benefits from the contribution of reputed scholars of the field of Utopian Studies, who were asked to make a statement explaining why dystopia is important. The Intermezzo completes this part and offers the reader an informed discussion of the concepts of utopia, dystopia and anti-utopia whilst providing ground for the case studies presented in the second part, in the sections devoted to literature, film, and theatre. - - In one way or another, despite the variety of approaches, all contributors argue for the idea that, if dystopia has invaded most forms of contemporary discourse, its sibling, utopia, has not been eradicated from the scene. Furthermore, the studies show that the tension between the two concepts is instrumental to our cautious, conscious, and tentative construction of the future. -
Dystopias. --- Anti-utopias --- Utopias --- Dystopian films --- Dystopian plays --- Dystopias in literature
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This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, as well as connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes on the individual and society as a whole. Dystopia, as a genre, reflects our greatest fears of what the future might bring, based on analysis of the present. This book connects traditional dystopian works with their contexts and compares these with contemporary versions. It centers around two main questions: Why is dystopia so popular now? And, why is dystopia so popular
Dystopias in literature. --- Dystopian films. --- Dystopia films --- Motion pictures
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Hunger Games films --- History and criticism. --- Dystopian films
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Each month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to our world. As we hear these climate change reports and their predictions for the future of Earth, many of us feel a sickening sense of déjà vu, as though we have already seen the sad outcome to this story. Drawing from recent scholarship that analyzes climate change as a form of "slow violence" that humans are inflicting on the environment, Climate Trauma theorizes that such violence is accompanied by its own psychological condition, what its author terms "Pretraumatic Stress Disorder." Examining a variety of films that imagine a dystopian future, renowned media scholar E. Ann Kaplan considers how the increasing ubiquity of these works has exacerbated our sense of impending dread. But she also explores ways these films might help us productively engage with our anxieties, giving us a seemingly prophetic glimpse of the terrifying future selves we might still work to avoid becoming. Examining dystopian classics like Soylent Green alongside more recent examples like The Book of Eli, Climate Trauma also stretches the limits of the genre to include features such as Blindness, The Happening, Take Shelter, and a number of documentaries on climate change. These eclectic texts allow Kaplan to outline the typical blind-spots of the genre, which rarely depicts climate catastrophe from the vantage point of women or minorities. Lucidly synthesizing cutting-edge research in media studies, psychoanalytic theory, and environmental science, Climate Trauma provides us with the tools we need to extract something useful from our nightmares of a catastrophic future.
Dystopian films --- Climatic changes in motion pictures. --- Psychic trauma in motion pictures. --- Future, The, in motion pictures. --- Dystopian films. --- History and criticism. --- Social psychology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Film --- Future in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Dystopia films --- Dystopian films - History and criticism --- Climatic changes in motion pictures --- Psychic trauma in motion pictures
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The reality of a radically changing world is beyond dispute. The notion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a heuristic key for the world of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, big data, the internet of things, and biotechnology. The discussion of emerging technologies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution highlights urgent questions about issues like intention, function, risk, and responsibility. This publication stimulates further reflection, ongoing conversation, and eventually the production of more textured thinking. The conversation with technology and with thinkers on technology, holds the promise of a certain fecundity, the possibility to see deeper into human evolution, but also, may be, into the future of humankind.
Theology --- Sociology & anthropology --- Fourth Industrial Revolution --- technological drivers --- Artificial intelligence --- Bio-engineering --- Robotics --- Nanotechnology --- Quantum computing --- theological reflection --- Dystopian --- utopian futures --- Christian faith --- Stiegler --- Religious leadership
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Covering literary, cinematic, media, cultural, game, philosophical, and interdisciplinary research in the broadly understood fantastic, fantasy & science fiction across media.
science fiction studies --- fantasy studies --- utopian and dystopian studies --- fan studies --- popular culture studies --- Science fiction --- Fantasy fiction --- Science fiction. --- Fantasy fiction. --- History and criticism --- Fantastic fiction --- Heroic fantasy (Fiction) --- Fantasy literature --- Fiction --- Science stories --- Future, The, in literature
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Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events. Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own ›offline‹ environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and political developments. In his analysis, Farca draws from a variety of research fields, such as literary theory and game studies, combining them into a coherent theory of aesthetic response to dystopian games. »Farca ist ein Grundlagenwerk des Computerspiel(en)s gelungen, das Strukturen des Spiels mit den Aktivitäten der Spieler verbindet.« Lothar Mikos, tv diskurs, 1 (2020) Besprochen in: gmk-Newsletter, 9 (2019)
Mass communications --- massamedia --- Dystopian plays --- Anti-utopian drama --- Anti-utopian plays --- Cacotopian drama --- Cacotopian plays --- Dystopian drama --- Dystopias --- Dystopic drama --- Dystopic plays --- Negative utopian drama --- Negative utopian plays --- Drama --- History and criticism. --- Video Games; Utopia; Dystopia; Science Fiction; Culture; Phenomenology; Media; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Digital Media; Sociology of Technology; Media Studies --- Computer Games. --- Culture. --- Digital Media. --- Dystopia. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Phenomenology. --- Science Fiction. --- Sociology of Technology. --- Utopia. --- Video games - Psychological aspects --- Computer games - Psychological aspects --- Simulation games - Psychological aspects --- Video games --- Computer games --- Simulation games
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How might we grasp the scope and variety of contemporary surveillance, its possibilities and threats? How have scholars addressed the topic? How has surveillance been understood in the past, and what can this awareness tell scholars and the public about the shape of things to come? Monitoring the Future addresses these questions by critically considering the utopian and dystopian literature and film that for decades has supplied provocative and illuminating depictions of surveillance, and responses to it. It goes beyond Orwell and Snowden to speculate on the shape of surveillance to come. Key Features:The first sustained account of the representation of surveillance in eutopian and dystopian literature and film * Charts surveillance's historical development and creative responses to that development * Provides a detailed critical account of the ways that surveillance studies has utilised utopias to formulate its ideas * Offers new readings of literary texts and films from More's Utopia through George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to Margaret Atwood' Oryx and Crake; and films from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Neil Blomkamp's Elysium and beyond.
Utopias in literature --- Utopias in motion pictures --- Electronic surveillance in literature --- Electronic surveillance in motion pictures --- Electronic surveillance. --- Dystopias in literature. --- Dystopian films. --- Utopias in literature. --- Utopias in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Utopian literature --- Dystopia films --- Electronics in surveillance --- SIGINT (Electronic surveillance) --- Signals intelligence --- Surveillance, Electronic --- Remote sensing --- Electronic surveillance in literature. --- Electronic surveillance in motion pictures.
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"By asking questions such as "What are the distinctive qualities of post-NAFTA North American dystopian literature?" and "What does this literature reflect about the tensions and contradictions of the inchoate continental community of North America?" Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase serves to resituate dystopian writing within a particular geo-social setting and introduce a productive means to understand both North American dystopian writing and its relevant engagements with a restricted, mapped reality."--Publishers website.
Literature and society. --- Mexican fiction --- Canadian fiction --- American fiction --- Utopias in literature. --- Dystopias in literature. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Utopian literature --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- North America --- In literature. --- Turtle Island (Continent) --- Utopies littéraires. --- Littérature et société. --- climate crisis. --- climate fiction. --- climate in literature. --- dystopia. --- dystopian fiction. --- end of times. --- floods in fiction. --- post-apocalyptic fiction. --- water crisis in literature. --- Utopies littéraires. --- Littérature et société.
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Il volume offre uno sguardo sulla raffigurazione degli spazi estremi nella letteratura in lingua inglese. Nel mondo anglofono, soprattutto in relazione alla sua storia coloniale e postcoloniale, i luoghi «alla fine del mondo» permettono di definire e di ridefinire i rapporti fra il sé e l’altro, fra il centro e le periferie. Gli «estremi confini» fanno leva sul ventaglio delle possibilità offerte dal remoto, dallo sconosciuto, dal diverso; i luoghi «dove tutto può accadere», su cui si sono proiettate fantasie utopiche e inquietudini distopiche, costituiscono un motore narrativo dalle caratteristiche sorprendenti, che viaggia lungo i binari sia del realismo che del fantastico. Saggi di: Elisa Bolchi, Nicoletta Brazzelli, Luigi Cazzato, Lucio De Capitani, Francesca Guidotti, Angelo Monaco, Francesca Montesperelli, Elena Ogliari, Eleonora Sasso.
Literature (General) --- littérature en anglais --- histoire coloniale et postcoloniale --- rapports entre soi et l'autre --- rapports entre le centre et les périphéries --- fantasmes utopiques --- angoisses dystopiques --- letteratura in lingua inglese --- storia coloniale e postcoloniale --- rapporti fra il sé e l’altro --- rapporti fra il centro e le periferie --- fantasie utopiche --- inquietudini distopiche --- literature in English --- colonial and postcolonial history --- relations between the center and the suburbs --- utopian fantasies --- dystopian anxieties
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