@article{163ad518-3b64-4115-83f8-eb94e6cf4eed,
author = {Ksenia  Olkusz },
title = {Stronghold Cities. Dystopian Fears in Utopian Asylums in Audiovisual Narratives},
journal = {The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series},
volume = {2018},
number = {7 (1/2018)},
year = {2018},
issn = {2450-2561},
pages = {77-94},keywords = {dystopia; game; movie; narrative; utopia},
abstract = {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.},
doi = {10.4467/24506249PJ.18.004.9778},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/pjacns/article/stronghold-cities-dystopian-fears-in-utopian-asylums-in-audiovisual-narratives}
}