CAHSS Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Feminism-Reboot in Mad Max: Fury Road and The Handmaid’s Tale
Book Title
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
978-1-68393-167-6
Publication Date
6-2019
Editors
Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan
Keywords
Donald Trump, feminism, Mad Max
Description
Utopia 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.
This is the fifth in a series of books edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, and published by Rowman & 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.
Publisher
University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
City
Lanham, MD
First Page
113
Last Page
132
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Waites, K. J. (2019). Feminism-Reboot in Mad Max: Fury Road and The Handmaid’s Tale. Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts, 113-132. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/139
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