{"product_id":"utopia-and-dystopia-in-the-age-of-trump-images-from-literature-and-visual-arts-9781683931690","title":"Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUtopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, television adaptations of books such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and new series such as Black Mirror to the repressive Hitlerian dystopia of Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, the contributors examine the development of scenarios that either prefigure the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump or suggest alternatives to them. Ultimately, one might say of the worlds presented here, viewed from different social and political perspectives: one person’s utopia is another’s dystopia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the fifth in a series of books edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, and published by Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (both in 2013) focused on the vampire legend in traditional and modern thought. The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic (2016) examined a range of supernatural beings in literature, film, and other forms of popular culture. Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts (2017) dealt with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times, and from peoples and cultures around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Brodman and James E Doan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One — Getting Off: Henry James and Writing Utopia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan M. R. Abitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two — Poison in the Ear: Lessons of Literary Alt-Narratives for the Trump Era\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristine Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three — The Search for Sustainability Transitions in Science Fiction Futures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Barber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four — Resurrecting and Adapting A Wrinkle in Time in the Age of Trump\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily A. O’Dell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five — The Medium is the Massacre: Deceit, Desire, and Patrick Bateman’s Trumpian Dystopia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Adleman \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six — “Horror Movies are Already Telling the Story” …of Trump’s America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTodd K. Platts and Kibiriti Majuto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven — Beautiful and Damned: Tech Noir, Neoplatonism, and Existential Crises in Bladerunner 2049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSue Matheson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight — Feminism-Reboot in Mad Max, Fury Road and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Waites\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine — Architectures of Ustopia: CDMX as Setting and Character in Mischa Rozema’s Short Film Sundays\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten — X-Men Saga and the Dystopian “Otherness”: Race, Identity, Repression and Inclusiveness in the Mutant World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElisabetta Di Minico\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven — Hang the DJ: Black Mirror in the Age of Trump\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Paproth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve — Through the Eyes of the Wardens: Judge Dredd under the Shadow of Trump\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Shapira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen — Grab ’em by the Seeds: The Regressive Utopianism of Trumpism in Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRyan Farrar \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fourteen — Diverse New World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid L. McNaron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042118304087,"sku":"9781683931690","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/utopia-and-dystopia-in-the-age-of-trump-images-from-literature-and-visual-arts-9781683931690","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}