Dystopian States of America

Matthew B. Hill, PhD, is Professor of English in the Humanities Department at Coppin State University, USA. His work focuses on 20th- and 21st-century warfare in literature, film, and popular culture. He is the author of Unconventional Warriors: The Fantasy of the American Resistance Fighter in Film and Television (2018). He is also the co-editor of The War on Terror and American Popular Culture (2009). His essays have appeared in War, Literature, and the Arts, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack, The Journal of Popular Culture, Extrapolation, and The Journal of American Culture.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Overview Essays1. The World's Smallest Monsters: The Threat and Reality of Pandemic Outbreak in Dystopian and Apocalyptic Fiction, Mark DiMauro2. The Dystopian Arc of Progress in Black Mirror, Stacy Esch3. Dystopian Totalitarianism, David Pierson4. Proxies of Apocalypse in the Age of Inhofe's Snowball and AHBIA S27: A Shallow Core Sample of Recent Cli-Fi Novels, Seth J. Forrest5. "War … War Never Changes": War as a Defining Aspect of Dystopian and Apocalyptic Narrative, Matthew B. HillReference EntriesÆon 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

This 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.