Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV Vint Sherryl
Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV Vint Sherryl From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian-and so do its…
Specifikacia Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV Vint Sherryl
Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV Vint Sherryl
From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian-and so do its television shows. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian extrapolations to spotlight the possibility of building a better world.Programming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. 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 control.
They argue that science fiction television Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castle, The Expanse, and Mr. Robot.