Broken Mirrors: Representations of Apocalypses and Dystopias in Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032239910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

Joe Trotta; Zlatan Filipovic; Houman Sadri

Opis

Dystopian stories and visions of the Apocalypse are nothing new, but in recent years there has been a noticeable surge in this theme in literature, art, comic books, video games, and TV shows. This volume investigates this pervasive theme through a critical analysis of works from a variety of disciplines.

Spis treści

Introduction: Welcome to the Beginning of the End of Everything

Joe Trotta and Houman Sadri

Chapter 1: A Light that Never Goes Out: Bare Life and the Possibility of Ethics in McCarthy’s The Road

Zlatan Filipovic

Chapter 2: Hopeful Dystopias? Figures of Hope in the Brazilian Science Fiction Series 3%

Michael Godhe

Chapter 3: Hopeful Hybridities: Transformative Interspecies Relationships in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Visual Narratives

Ariel Khan

Chapter 4: Dystopia and Utopia After Darwin: Using Evolution to Explain Edward Bulwer Lytton’s The Coming Race

Emelie Jonsson

Chapter 5: Is this the Futu.re?: Russian Cosmism and the Construction of an Immor(t)al Utopia

Iril Hove Ullestad

Chapter 6: The Mexican Sicario Against the End of the World

Gabriela Mercado

Chapter 7: Post-apocalyptic Play: Representations of the End of the City in Video Games

Emma Fraser

Chapter 8: The Future in Ruins: The Uses of Derelict Buildings and Monuments in Post-Apocalyptic Film and Literature

Jerry Määttä

Chapter 9: The Zombie as a Pronoun: What Pronouns are Used and Why?

Linda Flores Ohlson

Chapter 10: What can a corpus tell us about Apocalyptic/Dystopian Texts

Joe Trotta

Chapter 11: Original Sin as Salvation: The Apocalyptic Boon in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Houman Sadri

O autorze

Joe Trotta is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Joe’s research has shifted from traditional linguistics to focusing nearly exclusively on the use of English in popular media. He is the founder and chair of the [GotPop] Research Group and the co-host of the GotPop Popular Culture Podcast.

Dr. Zlatan Filipovic is Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London and has published extensively on deconstruction and affect in literary writing.

Houman Sadri is a PhD candidate and teacher of English Literature, at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the co-host of the GotPop Popular Culture Podcast.