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OverviewDystopian 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew B. HillPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: ABC-CLIO Weight: 0.964kg ISBN: 9781440873386ISBN 10: 1440873380 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 13 September 2022 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: College/higher education , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Tertiary & Higher Education , Educational: Primary & Secondary Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsThis disturbing catalog of impending dystopia and apocalypse will be used heavily in academic libraries that support literature and film studies and in large public libraries. * Booklist * Author InformationMatthew B. Hill, PhD, is professor of English at Coppin State University in Baltimore, MD. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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