Programming the Future : : Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV / / Sherryl Vint, Jonathan Alexander.
From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate cont...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE CHANGING SHAPE OF SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION
- 2 INVENTING SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION AS POLITICAL NARRATIVE
- 3 9/11 AND ITS AFTERMATHS Threats of Invasion
- 4 AMERICAN CIVIL WARS
- 5 DESIRING A DIFFERENT FUTURE The 100 and The Expanse
- 6 REBOOTING DEMOCRACY AND MR. ROBOT
- CONCLUSION Democracy in Crisis
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- FILMOGRAPHY
- INDEX