Wastelands and Wonderlands

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Utopias and Dystopias in Film and Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Explores a wide range of utopias and dystopias in film and literature and their important relationship to our present moment.Wastelands and Wonderlands challenges readers, in these uniquely dystopian times, to reevaluate their ideas about utopia and dystopia. Bringing together film, literary, and utopian studies scholars from across the world, this interdisciplinary collection explores a wide range of utopias and dystopias in film and literature, from visionaries as varied as William Morris and George Lucas to such fresh new and distinctive voices as Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and N. K. Jemisin. Contributors dismantle myths about utopian and dystopian film, literature, and television and explore the nature of utopian and dystopian fiction and its important relationship to our present moment. Whether through ecocritical work, work aimed at decolonizing utopian studies, debates about our relationship with technology and the nonhuman, forms of utopian hope and pessimism, or new thinking about cinematic and literary techniques and production, these essays offer fresh insight into the subject area and something to interest any reader.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Antal sidor330
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9798855806243

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Film inom Kultur
Television inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

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. Utopian Technology 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 Kayıscı 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

"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