Dystopian states of America : apocalyptic visions and warnings in literature and film / Matthew B. Hill, editor.

Other author Hill, Matthew B., 1974- editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationSanta Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2022]
Description1 online resource (xxix, 362 pages)
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
Subjects

Contents 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 -- 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.
Abstract "This volume is a resource for students of all levels who are interested in learning more about apocalyptic and dystopian narratives and the complex ways that they reflect the cultural conflicts, fears, and anxieties of the societies in which they were created and serve to offer critiques and responses to those same phenomena"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2022).
Issued in other formPrint version: Dystopian states of America Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, [2022] 9781440873386
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LCCN 2022008114
ISBN9781440873393 (electronic book)
ISBN1440873399 (electronic book)
ISBN9798216182757 (ebook)
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