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Author:   Matthew Leggatt (University of Winchester)
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9798855806243

Pages:   330
Publication Date:   01 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagining an Exit Matthew Leggatt Part I: Utopias on Screen 1. Playfulness, Utopia, and The Fifth Element Steven Rybin 2. Heavenly Pictures: Utopian Thinking in the Anti-Utopian Cinema of Michael Haneke Daniel Varndell 3. ""I Don’t See How Singing and Dancing Could Be Dangerous"": Becoming Utopian in Utopia Falls — Interrogating a Nano-Utopian Moment in Young Adult TV Heather McKnight 4. Technology and Utopia in The Mosquito Coast Douglas McFarland 5. The Utopian World of Technicolor Murray Pomerance Part II: Utopias on the Page 6. On the Nature of Utopia: A Dialogue Between Ursula K. Le Guin and N. K. Jemisin Raffaella Baccolini 7. Utopianism and Imperialism in H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau and William Golding's Lord of the Flies Hisashi Ozawa 8. Pessimistic Utopianism Sean Seeger 9. Utopias, Human Nature, and Green Lifestyles Werner Christie Mathisen Part III: Dystopias on the Page 10. Algorithmic Satire and The End of Social Media Utopianism in Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) and The Every (2021) Matthew Leggatt 11. The Double Gesture of Nonhuman Voices in Kazuo Ishiguro's Speculative Fiction Burcu Kayışcı Akkoyun 12. Indigenizing the Critical Dystopia: Alexis Wright's (Post)Apocalyptic Imaginaries in Carpentaria and The Swan Book Jacqueline Dutton 13. The End of Dystopia Patricia McManus Part IV: Dystopias on Screen 14. Lonely Utopia, Lonesome Dystopia: The Crisis of Today and Tomorrow Sean Redmond 15. Totality and Totalitarianism in Four Hollywood Dystopian Films Maria Varsam 16. ""Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here"": Space, Corporeality, and Failed Utopia in Westworld Christina Wilkins 17. Young Adult Dystopia's Influence on the Female Heroine in the TV Series The Handmaid's Tale Jelena Pataki Šumiga 18. Rebels with a Cause? Waste in Star Wars Tom Ue and Callum McNutt List of Contributors Index

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""One of the things that impresses me most about this collection is its ability to move beyond a narrow Anglocentric view of utopias and dystopias, including everything from Afrofuturism to ideologies of indigenous Australians. It considers films and literature, utopias and dystopias equally, while also exploring the connections between them."" — David Venditto, author of Whiteness at the End of the World: Race in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

Author Information

Matthew Leggatt is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Winchester, United Kingdom. He is the editor of Was It Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction and Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror: The Melancholic Sublime.

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