Stronghold Cities. Dystopian Fears in Utopian Asylums in Audiovisual Narratives
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Publication date: 07.12.2018
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 2018, 7 (1/2018), pp. 77 - 94
https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.18.004.9778Authors
Stronghold Cities. Dystopian Fears in Utopian Asylums in Audiovisual Narratives
In the past few years there has been a growing interest in depicting permanently sieged strongholds, secluded last stands, or quarantined asylums within a post-apocalyptic world so as to strengthen the sense of the ultimate isolation and disconnection from the desolated world outside. The majority of those narratives share a similar world-model, featuring an over-crowded, fortified refuge and its ruler turning a utopian sanctuary into a dystopian confinement. This means that the society in such a world faces two actual threats: one imminent, be it a zombie apocalypse, bands of scavengers, or epidemic that forces people to take refuge – and the other one, concealed, which reveals itself when everything seems to be under control.
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Stronghold Cities. Dystopian Fears in Utopian Asylums in Audiovisual Narratives
Stronghold Cities. Dystopian Fears in Utopian Asylums in Audiovisual Narratives
Facta Ficta Research Centre (Kraków, Poland)
Published at: 07.12.2018
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