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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Matthew B., 1974- editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalypse in literature.

Apocalypse in motion pictures.

Apocalyptic television programs.

Dystopias in literature.

Apocalyptic literature--Encyclopedias.

Apocalyptic literature.

Science fiction films--Encyclopedias.

Science fiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 362 pages)

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- ǂc Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Æon flux

A.I. artificial intelligence

Akira

Alas, Babylon

Alien series

All the birds in the sky

All these thinigs 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 Ameria

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798216182757

9781440873393

1440873399

OCLC:

1298714509