{"product_id":"dystopia-and-dispossession-in-the-harry-warwick-9781836245100","title":"Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film, 1979-2017: The Aesthetics of Enclosure","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017 (from Ridley Scott's \u003ci\u003eAlien\u003c\/i\u003e to Denis Villeneuve's \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner \u003cbr\u003e2049\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eDystopia and Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein the Hollywood Science Fiction Film\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the trajectory of Hollywood's dystopianism in that period is inextricable from the phenomenon of the 'new enclosures', the new dispossessions and privatisations sweeping across the United States since the 1970s. More precisely, it contends that the critiques of such dispossessions elaborated before the turn of the century - consider the satire of private policing in \u003ci\u003eRoboCop\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), the portrayal of commodified air in \u003ci\u003eTotal Recall\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), and the nightmarish extrapolations of postmodern urbanism in \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003eThe Truman Show\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) - begin to disappear in films such as \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Island\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eDistrict 9\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eRepo Men\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and \u003ci\u003eThe Purge\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), the further commodification of land, forest, reservoir, ideas, even the human genome having diminished the contrast between capitalist and non-capitalist spaces on which the earlier critiques depended. Bringing close readings of blockbuster films into dialogue with historical and theoretical scholarship on dispossession, \u003ci\u003eDystopia and Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein the Hollywood Science Fiction Film\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new understanding of the politics of science fiction in particular and utopian thought in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry Warwick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836245106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836245100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d","brand":"Harry Warwick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579869806847,"sku":"9781836245100","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f662464e-7c8f-4d0a-afed-575d5a89c576.jpg?v=1763877222","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dystopia-and-dispossession-in-the-harry-warwick-9781836245100","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}