{"product_id":"the-fiction-of-dread-by-dr-robert-t-tally-jr-9781501375842","title":"The Fiction of Dread","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermath of the World Wars, with such canonical examples as \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNineteen-Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culture—e.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasies—have confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells’s \u003cem\u003eThe Time Machine\u003c\/em\u003e, Neil Gaiman’s \u003cem\u003eAmerican Gods\u003c\/em\u003e, and Suzanne Collins’s \u003cem\u003eThe Hunger Games\u003c\/em\u003e, and on TV and film such as \u003cem\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Last of Us\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. \u003cem\u003eThe Fiction of Dread\u003c\/em\u003e provides an innovative reading of contemporary culture and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice at a moment when, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599428075756,"sku":"9781501375842","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781501375842-the-fiction-of-dread.jpg?v=1777978082","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-fiction-of-dread-by-dr-robert-t-tally-jr-9781501375842","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}