Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film, 1979-2017
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80207-761-2 (ISBN)
2049), Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film argues that the trajectory of Hollywood’s dystopianism in that period is inextricable from the phenomenon of the ‘new enclosures’, the new dispossessions and privatisations sweeping across the United States since the 1970s. More precisely, it contends that the critiques of such dispossessions elaborated before the turn of the century – consider the satire of private policing in RoboCop (1987), the portrayal of commodified air in Total Recall (1990), and the nightmarish extrapolations of postmodern urbanism in Blade Runner (1982) and The Truman Show (1998) – begin to disappear in films such as The Matrix (1999), The Island (2005), District 9 (2009), Repo Men (2010), and The Purge (2013), the further commodification of land, forest, reservoir, ideas, even the human genome having diminished the contrast between capitalist and non-capitalist spaces on which the earlier critiques depended. Bringing close readings of blockbuster films into dialogue with historical and theoretical scholarship on dispossession, Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film proposes a new understanding of the politics of science fiction in particular and utopian thought in general.
Harry Warwick is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
Introduction – Anticipation: Science Fiction between Spectacle and Speculation
PART 1: ENCLOSURE AFTER ENCLOSURE1. Extrapolation: The New Enclosures in New Hollywood2. Privatisation: Conceptualising Enclosure in RoboCop and Total Recall3. Urbanisation: Images of Los Angeles in Blade Runner and The Truman Show
PART 2: DYSTOPIA AFTER DYSTOPIA4. Expropriation: Marx, Utopia, and the Limits of Political Economy5. Innovation: Intellectual Property in The Matrix, The Island, and District 96. Speculation: Credit, Crisis, and Foreclosure in Repo Men and The Purge
Conclusion – Negation: Capitalism at the End of the World
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.03.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies ; 95 |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Liverpool |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 239 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80207-761-8 / 1802077618 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80207-761-2 / 9781802077612 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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