Age of dystopia : our genre, our fears and our future

ISBN: 144388975X
ISBN: 9781443889759
Physical Description: 1 online resource remote
Edition: 1st unabridged.
Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary: This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, as well as connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes on the individual and society as a whole. Dystopia, as a genre, reflects our greatest fears of what the future might bring, based on analysis of the present. This book connects traditional dystopian works with their contexts and compares these with contemporary versions. It centers around two main questions: Why is dystopia so popular now? And, why is dystopia so popular.