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Sullivan, Emily. "Dystopia." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1272398862.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Kent State University, 2010.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 26, 2010). Advisor: Loderstedt Michael. Keywords: printmaking; screen printing; photography; installation Includes bibliographical references (p. 21).
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Cojocaru, Daniel. "Violence and dystopia : mimesis and sacrifice in contemporary Western dystopian narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f3f2848d-d349-4dcd-8bff-810010a2e8e3.

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Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-
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Christogiannopoulou, Klappenbach Anastasia. "Utopia - dystopia : documentation of the thesis Utopia/dystopia." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-2738.

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I will start my thesis project with an analyse of current innovations in technology and new materials to find out what possible potential they may offer for new design solutions. The focus will be on inventions of disruptive technologies of the past and the present and how they change our way of life. An interesting point is to draw conclusions from how the consequences of these technological milestones impact our everyday life. An example is the influence of the internet (in the bigger and the smaller scale): it changed our way to purchase goods, to find a partner and to get e-services. In an
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Carnes, Erin Kay. "Digesting dystopia." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1127.

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Digesting Dystopia There is a discrepancy between where our food comes from and where we believe it comes from. Our understanding of the origins of our consumable food is often distorted. The relationship between consumers and the ingredients keeping us alive is characterized by an overwhelming amount of contradictory information. The decisions that we make regarding these products have a profound effect on every facet of our existence. I use the contentious climate of the food industry as the background for making surreal images that open up conversations about the politics of eating. These c
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Dror, Stephanie. "The ecology of dystopia : an ecocritical analysis of young adult dystopian texts." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46535.

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Using the lens of ecocriticism combined with theories of the utopia and dystopia, this thesis focuses on the literary portrayal of nature and technology in three contemporary young adult dystopian texts: Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Hunger Games by Susanne Collins, and The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. This research takes a cultural studies approach and draws upon sources of environmentalist criticism and literary studies to investigate the ways in which the three primary texts represent the natural world and technology and then endeavours to uncover the relations
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Koval, Ju. "Dystopia as a cinematography direction." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/31122.

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Dystopia is a direction of the artistic literature and the cinematography direction, in narrow sense, it is a description of the totalitarian state, in wide sense, it is a description of any society, in which there are prevailed negative progress trends. Dystopia is a complete opposition of utopia. Utopia is a genre of the artistic literature, which is close to science fiction and describing a model of an ideal society from the author’s point. Unlike dystopia, it is characterize by the author’s faith in the blamelessness of a model. When you are citing the document, use the following link http
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Dreher, Matthew David. "A Crypt within a Dystopia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32607.

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This project is about our social denial of death, the questioning of rationality and utopian ideals, and our fears of modernity. The intimate connection once associated with death has been hidden. In this project the remains of the dead are sacred. Death is brought to the forefront. By acknowledging a finite existence and exposing our fear of death, life can be given meaning. The activities of daily life are integrally linked to the crypt.<br>Master of Architecture
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Welstead, Adam. "Dystopia and the divided kingdom : twenty-first century British dystopian fiction and the politics of dissensus." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17104.

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This doctoral thesis examines the ways in which contemporary writers have adopted the critical dystopian mode in order to radically deconstruct the socio-political conditions that preclude equality, inclusion and collective political appearance in twenty-first century Britain. The thesis performs theoretically-informed close readings of contemporary novels from authors J.G. Ballard, Maggie Gee, Sarah Hall and Rupert Thomson in its analysis, and argues that the speculative visions of Kingdom Come (2006), The Flood (2004), The Carhullan Army (2007) and Divided Kingdom (2005) are engaged with a w
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Holt, Macon Ashford Bannon. "A sonic fiction of boring dystopia." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2017. http://research.gold.ac.uk/22026/.

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This thesis attempts to re-engage the practice of Sonic Fiction devised by Kodwo Eshun, within the historical context that Mark Fisher termed, boring dystopia, and produce A Sonic Fiction of Boring Dystopia. This also shows how the practice of sonic fiction might intercede to overcome an impasse between a traditional critical theory (Adorno) and Deleuzian approaches to the analysis of popular music. The thesis is in two parts; the first provides an overview of the concept of boring dystopia and the practice of sonic fiction. The second is A Sonic Fiction of Boring Dystopia, that performs an ex
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Hasan, Arwa. "Readers and text worlds of dystopia." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45084/.

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This thesis is an exploration of reading styles and stylistic patterning in relation to dystopian fiction. Situated within an empirical cognitive poetics, the study draws upon naturalistic reader-response data, with specific reference to Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Vonnegut’s ‘Harrison Bergeron’, as case studies of dystopian texts that produce a spectrum of readings. The notions of preferred and dispreferred responses are defined in cognitive linguistic and pragmatic terms, and non-normative readings of these dystopian texts are investigated. The thesis adopts a text-world theoretical des
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Jackson, Sarah Anne. "Utopia and dystopia in futuristic nonfiction television." Thesis, Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/jackson/JacksonS0510.pdf.

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Fiction often represents the future in either a utopian or dystopian light. Utopian fiction presents worlds where life is perfection. Dystopian fiction's conflict comes directly from the characters' interactions with the problems in their world. When nonfiction television enters into speculation by making programs about the future, they also enter into these two categories of fiction. Some programs show a world returning to a perfect Eden, but they begin with the dystopian ending of the human race on earth. Other shows promise technological utopias, but avoid obvious problems with their techno
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Mahoney, Elizabeth. "Writing so to speak : the feminist dystopia." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388181.

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Wesche, Gretchen M. "Control and Creativity: The Languages of Dystopia." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1304482313.

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Stråle, Petra. "”Fuck society” : - Mr. Robot som samtida dystopi." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-55119.

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TITLE:  ”Fuck society” SUB-HEADING: Mr. Robot som samtida dystopi. AUTHOR: Petra Stråle. EXAMINER: Johan Nilsson. LEVEL: BA Thesis.SUBJECT: Media and communication science. INSTITUTE: Department of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences University of Örebro.PURPOSE: The thesis purpose is to examine how the television series Mr. Robot can be viewed as an dystopian work of fiction that depicts our present society. METHOD: Content analysis. RESULT: The results indicates that the television series Mr. Robot can not be categorized as a classical dystopia, but does, however, contain dystopian ele
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Malone, Travis B. "Crafting Utopia and Dystopia: Film Musicals 1970-2002." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1162486037.

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Schrock, Lauren. "Organisational dystopia : surrealist paintings for critical management studies." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/102821/.

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This thesis responds to a call to bring humanities into organisation studies. The researcher analyses and interprets contemporary Surrealist paintings for understanding organisational dystopia. While organisational dystopia is not new to the field of Critical Management Studies (CMS), it is a concept enriched by a variety of imaginative stances addressing marginalised or silenced experiences of work life. One such area of imagination is painting. Paintings have historically examined work as a subject of art, yet art has been missed in organisation studies. To address this issue, as well as con
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Saunders, Victoria M. "Designing Depth: creating dystopia through architecture and film." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337265588.

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Heath, Clare Charlotte Olivia. "Eduardo Paolozzi : from utopia to dystopia 1928-1958." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15738.

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This thesis explores the early career of Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005), focusing in particular on his artworks of the 1940s and 1950s. Predominantly known for his post-World War Two activity as an eclectic artist, designer and pedagogue, Paolozzi emerged as an experimental alternative to the modernist formalism of Henry Moore’s generation and remains one of the acknowledged leaders of an artistic movement that helped invigorate the British art scene. The sheer volume and diversity of his creative output, however, its wide-ranging use of descriptive materials and profuse interests, has legitim
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Yates, Stephen. "[1+[infinity]=¿] Eden, Dystopia, and a theistic humanism /." Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida State University, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/lib/digcoll/undergraduate/honors-theses/341778.

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Thesis (Honors paper)--Florida State University, 2008.<br>Advisor: Barry Faulk, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. On t.p. "infinity" is represented by the infinity symbol. Includes bibliographical references.
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Berglund, Anna-Karin, and Malin Nguyen. "P3 Dystopia: När havet kommer : en retorisk analys." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Media- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30345.

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According to the IPCC sea levels can rise by up to one meter in the next century and maybe even more depending on both individual lifestyle choices and policy making on a societal level. An episode from the Swedish Rafio P3's podcast series, P3 Dystopia, has been investigated as a communication effort to spread knoowledge about the climate issue and its consequences. The episode chosen for this study deals with the sea level rise and its threat on civilizations across the globe. The podcast is part of the Swedish public serive campaign prior to the election to parliament in September of 2018.
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Bakker, Barbara. "Arabic dystopias in the 21st century : A study on 21st century Arabic dystopian fictionthrough the analysis of four works of Arabic dystopian narrative." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Arabiska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28495.

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Dystopian fiction as intended in the Western literary tradition is a 20 th century phenomenon on the Arabic literary scene. This relatively new genre has been experiencing an uplift since the beginning of the 21 st century and many works that have been defined dystopias have been published and translated into English in the last 10 – 15 years. In order to find out their main features, Claeys’s categorization of literary dystopias is applied and a thematic analysis is carried out on four Arabic dystopian works of narrative, written by authors from different parts of the Arabic world. The analys
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Johnson, Bryan W. "Dystopian Literature and the Novella Form as Illustrated Through Side Effects, an Original Novella." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1413.

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This master’s degree thesis exists in two parts: a critical introduction and an original novella entitled Side Effects. The critical introduction introduces and explains the theories on, literature surrounding, and literary uses of dystopian fiction, the novella format, and drug-based psychotherapy. Current opinion on dystopian fiction sees it characterized by a seemingly perfect societal setting that ultimately contains hidden or suppressed moral flaws. The ultimate purpose of dystopian fiction is commentary on contemporary society through a defamiliarized setting. The novella format is shown
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Bakker, Barbara. "Arabic dystopias in the 21st century : A study on 21st century Arabic dystopian fiction through the analysis of four works of Arabic dystopian narrative." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Arabiska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27968.

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Dystopian fiction as intended in the Western literary tradition is a 20 th century phenomenon on the Arabic literary scene. This relatively new genre has been experiencing an uplift since the beginning of the 21st century and many works that have been defined dystopias have been published and translated into English in the last 10 – 15 years. In order to find out their main features, Claeys’s categorization of literary dystopias is applied and a thematic analysis is carried out on four Arabic dystopian works of narrative, written by authors from different parts of the Arabic world. The analysi
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Glises, de la Rivière Orlane. "Le discours totalitaire du Grand Inquisiteur dans la littérature dystopique : de ses réécritures à sa réappropriation." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019STRAC012/document.

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Cette étude analyse le discours totalitaire à travers le prisme du personnage du Grand Inquisiteur dans quatre romans dystopiques : "Le Zéro et l’infini" d’Arthur Koestler, "1984" de George Orwell, "La Zone du Dehors" d’Alain Damasio et "2084" de Boualem Sansal. Il s’agira non seulement de comprendre la structure du discours totalitaire mais également la façon dont il interagit dans l’univers dystopique et avec les autres personnages. La méthode de recherche aborde ces questions de façon pluridisciplinaire afin de mieux analyser les aspects linguistiques, historiques et philosophiques au sein
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Cheong, Weng Lam. "Beyond a feminist dystopia : Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456330.

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Huang, Huai-Hsuan. "Distinguishing Patterns of Utopia and Dystopia, East and West." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7038.

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Before Sir Thomas More published Utopia and defined his ideal world with this fictional land, humans had been looking for their ideal society for centuries based on various religions and cultures. Yet, there are a few studies focusing on Utopia and Dystopia in cross-cultural contexts. This thesis will explore the two main questions: 1) can Utopia and Dystopia be separated? and 2) how does the utopian concept in the West involve in Eastern culture during the postwar period in postcolonial perspective? Phoenix in Japan and THX 1138 in U.S. are two well-known works during the post
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Paz, Mariano. "Ideology and dystopia : political discourse in contemporary fiction cinema." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529922.

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The present thesis consists of a discussion of contemporary Western science fiction cinema from a cultural studies perspective. In particular, this work is focused on the analysis of political ideology and its discourses as they are conveyed in the visual, aural, and narrative dimensions of a selected corpus of films from three different countries: Argentina, Britain and the United States. The selection of this range of cinema industries is informed by the intention of widening the spectrum of science fiction criticism, which is mostly focused on American cinema, and also on the cross comparat
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Lynch, Shaylynn. "Furyous Female Just-Warriors of Post-Apocalypse and Dystopia." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062883/.

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The intention of this thesis is to identify and analyze the precise shift from an exploitative archetype to an empowered representation of women warriors, to identify the arena in which male and female characters are given equal agency in the context of war, and finally explore the key characteristics that make up an empowered female hero. This thesis also addresses the sociocultural nature of the warrior woman archetype as it pertains to the current role of women in the military. The films analyzed in this thesis are all post 9/11 films; a fact that links them culturally to the wars in Iraq
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Leth, Corina. "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-16223.

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The aim of this essay is to provide an answer to the question "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?". It will show that meaningful concepts such as sexual satisfaction, pleassure, passion, love, bonding, procreation and family are handled as threats in dystopian societies described in well-known novels as We, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four . It will explain how the conflict between the collective and the individual influences peoples' sexuality. It will also show how leading powers in the three dystopian societies use different methods to remove the significanse and fu
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Edgren, Justin. "ANIMATING DYSTOPIA: AN ANALYSIS OF MY ANIMATED FILM, P19." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1099.

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In this paper, I discuss the modern socio-technological state of global social control and its representation in my stop motion animated film P19. I will compare the ways in which social control has changed and remained the same from September 11, 2001 to the present. I will discuss the surveillance and control grids permeating all communication networks and how humans are interacting with them. I will conclude with an analysis of some of my techniques and processes in stop motion animation.
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Danson, Nina. "Dystopi som social fantasi : En analys av dystopins potential som spekulativ sociologi." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-47493.

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Utopin har sedan århundranden tillbaka figurerat som tankemodell för det goda samhället. Tidigare som moderna sociologer har hävdat nyttan med ett utopiskt tankegods, särskilt som kritisk social teori med syfte att förändra människans sociala villkor. Senare forskning har visat på att element i science-fiction har ett praktiskt värde för flera aspekter av sociologiskt intresse, exempelvis inom organisationsutveckling, praktiskt lärande och modeller för hållbarhet. Men trots påvisad nytta har varken utopiska idéer eller modern forskning inom science-fiction fångat den sociologiska akademins int
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Moore, Belinda S. "Young adult dystopian fiction in the postnatural age." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101535/1/Belinda_Moore_Thesis.pdf.

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This creative works thesis comprises an exegesis and a novel. Both explore the ways that a postnatural perspective can shape the reading and writing of young adult dystopian fiction. Approaching literature from a postnatural perspective can highlight a connection between shifts in a novel's key terms and the development of the protagonist towards understanding their world as an interconnected ecosystem. Through its grounding in ecocriticism and children's literature criticism, this research investigates the contributions a postnatural perspective offers young adult dystopian fiction generally,
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Stjernström, Elsa, and Jenny Emanuelsson. "Dystopi och jordens undergång : En genreanalys av dystopiska inslag i fiktiv film." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-21167.

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This study is a research on how dystopian features are expressed within different genres. The purpose is to discuss films that contain dystopian features in relation to genre and to examine if there are shared conventions in the films that can make dystopia a film genre on its own. The theoretical base includes genre theory and Rick Altman’s semantic/syntactic approach to film genre. Five films from different genres, all produced within the time period of 2000-2010, are analyzed with a semantic/syntactic approach to genre and then discussed in relation to dystopia and prior research. By using
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Relf, Jan. "Rehearsing the future : utopia and dystopia in women's writing, 1960-1990." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303370.

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Kisro, Johan. "Finding Dystopia in Utopia : Gender, Power and Politics in The Carhullan Army." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104506.

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Sarah Hall’s feminist dystopia The Carhullan Army presents a near-future society by using oppositional binaries traditional to the genre of the literary dystopia; Utopia/Dystopia, Male/Female, and Good/Evil. This essay deconstructs these binaries in order to unveil the inherent complexities in power structures that cannot be captured by such binaries. Previous research on the novel has approached it with feminist theory, and different branches of feminism such as ecofeminism. In this essay, I use feminist theory as a starting point to discuss the Authority’s oppression of women in the novel, b
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Sirutis, Lukas. "Utopian thought as an expression of social and political critique." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130605_155436-57816.

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This thesis explores and connects two main elements: the utopian studies and the studies of social and political critique. The big quantity and variety and history of utopian texts raises a simple question: why someone writes utopian texts, why one wishes for a better and different life? And how do these factors operate in the large picture of humanity. It has been observed that utopian literature flourish in the times of human despair. In the times of unhappiness people try to search for decisions inside the dominant order in which they often feel hopeless to change. The utopians might say: “
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Melo, Carla Beatriz. "Squatting dystopia performative invasions of real and imagined spaces in contemporary Brazil /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467889861&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Townsend, Jessica A. "How to save the future anxiety and social criticism in feminist dystopia /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594494971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Ventrucci, Virginia. "Translating and Analyzing Contemporary Italian Dystopian Fiction: Leonardo Patrignani's "Tu Non Esisti"." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017.

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As the English-speaking book market is difficult to penetrate for authors who are not native speakers of English, it is important to analyze how writers of different languages can produce notable works. This dissertation sets to translate, analyze, and assess the literary value of "Tu Non Esisti", a short story written by Italian author Leonardo Patrignani, as an example of contemporary Italian dystopian fiction that could be successful abroad.
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Johansson, Ingrid. "Informationsöverflödets dystopi : En intertextuell diskursanalys från Future Shock till The Shallows." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-201846.

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Today it is common to state that we are living in an information overloaded society. But there are many different definitions of what can be said to constitute Information Overload and there is a lack of substantial research on the subject. Conclusions in the available literature on Information Overload are often drawn on anecdotal evidence and carries a dramatized picture of the causes and effects of the phenomenon. With the tools of discursive analysis this two years master’s thesis explores how the phenomenon Information Overload is portrayed in six popular science books that deals with the
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Swirski, Peter. "Dystopia or dischtopia : an analysis of the SF paradigms in Thomas M. Disch." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61241.

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On the basis of an ontological analogy between the worlds of myth and dystopia, the present thesis argues the latter's inherently "metaphysical" character. As such, dystopia is regarded as categorically different from Science Fiction which, however grim in its surface presentation, always remains paradigmatically "non-metaphysical," i.e., neutral. This generic distinction is then applied to the analysis of the three most important SF works of Thomas M. Disch, one of the most interesting and accomplished contemporary SF writers. The generic, as well as socio-aesthetic discussion of Camp Concent
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Ahlbäck, Pia Maria. "Energy, heterotopia, dystopia : George Orwell, Michel Foucault and the twentieth century environmental imagination /." Åbo : Åbo akademis förlag : Åbo akademi university press, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38960660s.

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Jores, Steffan. "Static Dystopia : From Architectural Staticism to free Space: The need for flexible space." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3621.

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STATIC DYSTOPIA   One of the greatest transformations of our constructed physical spaces is taking place now and for a long time to come. The buildings we have created do not serve the needs and conditions of our time. They are exhausted of recurrent renovations and inexhaustible attempts to remodify already given forms, which result in expensive contracts. According to new EU-requirements scheduled 2019, no new buildings are allowed to consume more energy than they produce. And more restrictions concerning energy consumption of our existing buildings are raised around the western world to bet
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Drage, Eleanor Guistina Prudence <1991&gt. "Utopia/Dystopia, Race, Gender, and New Forms of Humanism in Women's Science Fiction." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/8828/1/Eleanor%20Drage%20-%20Thesis%20-Cotutela%20.pdf.

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This thesis aims to uncover new forms of humanism grounded in a critique of systems that produce and reify race and gender by staging a conversation between six contemporary works of science fiction (SF) written by women from Italy, France, Spain, and the UK, and five acclaimed theorists in the fields of gender, queer, postcolonial, humanist, and cultural studies: Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Gayatri Spivak, Paul Gilroy, and Jack Halberstam. As outlined in the second chapter, I focus, in particular, on Butler’s conception of subjects who ‘become’ through affective encounters, Braidotti’s cri
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Fasola, Fiore Lisa <1994&gt. "Gender and Genre in Young Adult Dystopia: Collins’s Hunger Games and Oliver’s Delirium." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14702.

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The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between gender and genre in two Young Adult (YA) dystopian series, drawing on two key concepts. The first is the assertion (made, among the others, by critics Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini) that critical dystopias, unlike classical dystopias, present a tendency towards the blending of different genre conventions. The second is the opposition, highlighted by Roberta Seelinger Trites, between two literary patterns which characterise YA fiction: depending on the level of maturity that the protagonist reaches by the end of the novel or seri
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Whyte, Alastair James Murray. "Utopian Intersections in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15299.

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This thesis argues for a new approach to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, and specifically his "legendarium" of narratives centred around "The Silmarillion" and The Lord of the Rings. It proposes that Tolkien's literary position may be understood productively by exploring distinct and enlightening intersections of his fiction with the modern tradition of utopian literature and with recent utopian theory. The thesis contends that these intersections primarily occur in three ways. The first intersection occurs as a consistent anti-utopian argument in Tolkien's narratives according to the programmati
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Diop, Babacar. "Esthétique des Ruines et Dystopie dans le roman Anglais postmoderne : une lecture de Riddley Walker, (1980) de Russel Hoban, Cloud Atlas, (2004) de David Mitchell et The Book of Dave (2006) de Will Self." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MON30080/document.

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Les concepts de dystopie et de postmodernisme ont pris une dimension nouvelle depuis une vingtaine d’années environ.Ces concepts, qui ont fait l’objet d’études multiples tant sur le plan littéraire qu’historique, pour ne citer que ces deuxdomaines-là, ont révélé d’autres perspectives qui, de notre point de vue, n’ont pas encore été abordées. Il s’agit parexemple du rapport entre la dystopie et les ruines. A travers cette thèse, nous avons étudié les concepts de dystopie et deruines tel qu’ils apparaissent dans trois oeuvres (Riddley Walker, (1980) de Russel Hoban, Cloud Atlas, (2004) de DavidM
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Bouet, Elsa Dominique. "Hitting the wall : dystopian metaphors of ideology in science fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9476.

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This thesis explores the depictions of the relationship between utopia and ideology by looking at metaphors of the wall in of utopian and dystopian science fiction, such as Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic. The wall is an image symbolising the ambiguity between ideology and utopia: the wall could be perceived to be the barrier protecting utopia while it is in fact the symbol for ideological restrictions and containment which are generating dystopia. The thesis looks at how these novels engage with the theme
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Collins, Karen E. "The future is happening already : industrial music, dystopia and the aesthetic of the machine." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272629.

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Zelenkova-O'Sullivan, Ouliana Alexandrovna. "Fictional language as a postmodernist construct : linguistic defamiliarization in historiographic metafiction and the dystopia." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366605.

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