Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump

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Herausgeber: Brodman, Barbara; Doan, James E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump focuses on utopias and dystopias that either prefigure or suggest alternatives to the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump and the changing conditions of America we now see around us. These topical studies provide compelling reading for both the general reader and the specialist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781683931690
• ISBN-10: 1683931696
• Artikelnr.: 61184496

Autorenporträt

Barbara Brodman is professor emerita in the Department of History and Political Science at Nova Southeastern University. James E. Doan is professor in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages at Nova Southeastern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Barbara Brodman and James E Doan
Chapter One - Getting Off: Henry James and Writing Utopia
Dan M. R. Abitz
Chapter Two - Poison in the Ear: Lessons of Literary Alt-Narratives for the
Trump Era
Christine Jackson
Chapter Three - The Search for Sustainability Transitions in Science
Fiction Futures
Jeffrey Barber
Chapter Four - Resurrecting and Adapting A Wrinkle in Time in the Age of
Trump
Emily A. O'Dell
Chapter Five - The Medium is the Massacre: Deceit, Desire, and Patrick
Bateman's Trumpian Dystopia
Daniel Adleman
Chapter Six - "Horror Movies are Already Telling the Story" ...of Trump's
America
Todd K. Platts and Kibiriti Majuto
Chapter Seven - Beautiful and Damned: Tech Noir, Neoplatonism, and
Existential Crises in Bladerunner 2049
Sue Matheson
Chapter Eight - Feminism-Reboot in Mad Max, Fury Road and Hulu's The
Handmaid's Tale
Kate Waites
Chapter Nine - Architectures of Ustopia: CDMX as Setting and Character in
Mischa Rozema's Short Film Sundays
Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer
Chapter Ten - X-Men Saga and the Dystopian "Otherness": Race, Identity,
Repression and Inclusiveness in the Mutant World
Elisabetta Di Minico
Chapter Eleven - Hang the DJ: Black Mirror in the Age of Trump
Matthew Paproth
Chapter Twelve - Through the Eyes of the Wardens: Judge Dredd under the
Shadow of Trump
Tom Shapira
Chapter Thirteen - Grab 'em by the Seeds: The Regressive Utopianism of
Trumpism in Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night
Ryan Farrar
Chapter Fourteen - Diverse New World
David L. McNaron
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors