The City of Lost Children
The most recently named and recognized retrofuturistic genre is dieselpunk aka decodence (the term dieselpunk is often associated with a more pulpish form and decodence, named after the contemporary art movement of Art Deco, with a more sophisticated form), set in alternate versions of an era located circa in the period of the 1920s–1950s. Early examples include the 1970s concept albums, their designs and marketing materials of the German band Kraftwerk (see below), the comic-book character Rocketeer (first appearing in his own series in 1982), the "Fallout" series of video games, and films such as "Brazil" (1985), "Batman" (1989), "The Rocketeer" (1991), "Batman Returns" (1992), "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994), "The City of Lost Children" (1995), and "Dark City" (1998). Especially the lower end of the genre strongly mimic the pulp literature of the era (such as the 2004 film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"), and films of the genre often reference the cinematic styles of film noir and German Expressionism. At times, the genre overlaps with the alternate history genre of a different World War II, such as with an Axis victory.