Bücher von Prof. M. Keith Booker

While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society marked by suffering caused by human and political evils. Later chapters consider dystopias after World War II, contemporary communist dystopias, and postmodernist dystopias in the West.

For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone.