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In contrast to classic dystopia's manifestations of world-shattering and -changing events, Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment introduces and develops the idea of microdystopia as the emerging genre for our times of imperceptibly shrinking horizons of possibilities in relation to film, series, and literature.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Henrik Gustafsson
Chapter 1: Microdystopias
Asbjørn Grønstad and Lene Johannessen
Chapter 2: Toward a Diagnostics of the Present: Popular Culture, Post-Apocalyptic
Macro-Dystopia, and the Petrification of Politics
Holger Pötzsch
Chapter 3: The Electronic Superhighway Collapses: The Silences of Don DeLillo's The Silence
Øyvind Vågnes
Chapter 4: Microdystopias and the Encoded Uncanny in Ira Levin and Rick and Morty
Michael J. Prince
Chapter 5: Unfeeling the Future: Euphoria, Teen Angst and the Micro-dystopic
Anders Lysne
Chapter 6: 'Heavenly Days' and Everyday Dystopia in Superstore
Lene Johannessen
Chapter 7: Nomadland, Neoliberalism and the Microdystopic
Asbjørn Grønstad
Chapter 8: Micro-dystopia and the Question of Wilderness
Knut Rio
Chapter 9: Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? Unpacking the microtopias of Beyonce's Black is King
Nahum Welang
Chapter 10: 'It's our secret, right?': An Investigation of Homelessness in HBO's
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About the author
Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.Lene Johannessen is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway.Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.Lene Johannessen is Professor of American Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway.Nahum N. Welang is assistant professor in English Language-Literature at the University of Stavanger (Norway).
