{"product_id":"fiction-of-dread","title":"Fiction of Dread","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermathof the World Wars, with such canonical examples as \u003ci\u003eBrave New World \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Nineteen-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre, in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culture—e.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasies—have confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells’s \u003ci\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, Neil Gaiman’s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, and Suzanne Collins’s \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Games\u003c\/i\u003e, and on TV and film such as \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead, Black Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last of Us\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. \u003ci\u003eThe Fiction of Dread\u003c\/i\u003e provides an innovative reading of contemporary culture and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice at a moment when, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223429566808,"sku":"9781501375842","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501375842.jpg?v=1770274834","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fiction-of-dread","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}