%0 Journal Article
%T Stronghold Cities. Dystopian Fears in Utopian Asylums in Audiovisual Narratives
%A Olkusz, Ksenia
%J The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/24506249PJ.18.004.9778
%N 7 (1/2018)
%P 77-94
%K dystopia, game, movie, narrative, utopia
%@ 2450-2561
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/pjacns/article/stronghold-cities-dystopian-fears-in-utopian-asylums-in-audiovisual-narratives
%X 
	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.