Dystopian States of America
Subtitle: Apocalyptic Visions and Warnings in Literature and Film
By: edited by Matthew B. Hill
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Santa Barbara
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9798216182764
Subjects: Film, TV & radio
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments   Introduction   Overview Essays  1. The World's Smallest Monsters: The Threat and Reality of Pandemic Outbreak in Dystopian and Apocalyptic Fiction   Mark DiMauro  2. The Dystopian Arc of Progress in Black Mirror   Stacy Esch  3. Dystopian Totalitarianism   David Pierson  4. Proxies of Apocalypse in the Age of Inhofe's Snowball and AHBIA S27: A Shallow Core Sample of Recent Cli-Fi Novels   Seth J. Forrest  5. "War ... War Never Changes": War as a Defining Aspect of Dystopian and Apocalyptic Narrative   Matthew B. Hill  Reference Entries  Æon Flux   A.I. Artificial Intelligence   Akira   Alas, Babylon   Alien Series   All the Birds in the Sky   All These Things I've Done   Altered Carbon   American War   Amerika   Animal Farm   Armageddon   Atlas Shrugged   Avatar: The Last Airbender   Batman   Battlefield Earth   Battlestar Galactica   Belles, The   Black Mirror   Blade Runner   Blade Runner 2049   Book of Eli, The   Boy and His Dog, A   Brave New World   Brazil   Broken Earth Trilogy, The   Canticle for Leibowitz, A   Children of Men, The   Circle, The   City of Ember Series   Clockwork Orange, A   Cloverfield Series   Colony   Contagion   Crazies, The   C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America   Cyborg   Dawn of the Dead   Day After Tomorrow, The   Day of the Triffids, The   Day the Earth Caught Fire, The   Daybreakers   Days of Future Past   Death Race 2000 and Death Race   Deep Impact   Delicatessen   Dhalgren   "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"   District 9   Divergent Series   DMZ   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?   Dog Stars, The   Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb   Dune   Elysium   Ember in the Ashes, An   Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.   eXistenZ   Fahrenheit 451   Falling Skies   Fallout   Firefly and Serenity   Futureland   Gattaca   Giver, The   Half-Life Series   Handmaid's Tale, The   Happening, The   Hunger Games Series, The   I Am Legend   I, Robot   Idiocracy   In Time   Independence Day   Infinite Jest   Interstellar   Invasion, U.S.A.   Invasion of the Body Snatchers   Iron Heel, The   Island, The   It Can't Happen Here   Jeremiah   Jericho   Judge Dredd   Last Man, The   Last Man on Earth, The   Last of Us, The   Last Policeman, The   Lathe of Heaven, The   Left Behind Series   Leftovers, The   Lobster, The   Logan's Run   Long Walk, The   Looper   "Machine Stops, The"   Mad Max Series   Make Room! Make Room! and Soylent Green   Man in the High Castle, The   Matrix Series, The   Maze Runner Series, The   Metro Series   Metropolis   Minority Report   Mist, The   Mumbo Jumbo   Neuromancer   Never Let Me Go   Night of the Living Dead   1984 (Nineteen Eight-Four)   On the Beach   Oryx and Crake   Outbreak   Overwatch   Parable of the Sower   Passage Trilogy, The   Planet of the Apes Series   Player Piano   Pleasantville   Postman, The   Purge Series, The   Quiet Place, A   Ready Player One   Red Dawn   Red Rising Series   Resident Evil Series   Revelation, The Book of   Road, The   Robocop   Rollerball   Ruins   Running Man, The   Scanner Darkly, A   Seeking a Friend for the End of the World   Shaun of the Dead   Skin Folk   Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade   Snow Crash   Snowpiercer   Sorry to Bother You   Stand, The   Starship Troopers   Station Eleven   Super Sad True Love Story   Surrogates   Terminator Series, The   They Live   This Is the End   3%   THX-1138   Total Recall   Transcendence   Transmetropolitan   Trial, The   Turner Diaries, The   12 Monkeys   28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later   2001: A Space Odyssey   2012   V   V for Vendetta   Walking Dead, The   WALL-E   War of the Worlds, The   Wasteland   Watchmen   Watership Down   Waterworld   We   Westworld   What Happened to Monday   Windup Girl, The   Wool (The Silo Series)   World War Z   World's End, The   Y: The Last Man   Z for Zachariah   Zombieland   About the Contributors   Index