{"product_id":"dystopia-and-dispossession-in-the-hollywood-science-fiction-film-1979-2017-the-aesthetics-of-enclosure-paperback","title":"Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film, 1979-2017: The Aesthetics of Enclosure - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarry Warwick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017 (from Ridley Scott's \u003ci\u003eAlien\u003c\/i\u003e to Denis Villeneuve's \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner \u003cbr\u003e2049\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eDystopia and Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein the Hollywood Science Fiction Film\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the trajectory of Hollywood's dystopianism in that period is inextricable from the phenomenon of the 'new enclosures', the new dispossessions and privatisations sweeping across the United States since the 1970s. More precisely, it contends that the critiques of such dispossessions elaborated before the turn of the century - consider the satire of private policing in \u003ci\u003eRoboCop\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), the portrayal of commodified air in \u003ci\u003eTotal Recall\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), and the nightmarish extrapolations of postmodern urbanism in \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003eThe Truman Show\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) - begin to disappear in films such as \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Island\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eDistrict 9\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eRepo Men\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and \u003ci\u003eThe Purge\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), the further commodification of land, forest, reservoir, ideas, even the human genome having diminished the contrast between capitalist and non-capitalist spaces on which the earlier critiques depended. Bringing close readings of blockbuster films into dialogue with historical and theoretical scholarship on dispossession, \u003ci\u003eDystopia and Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein the Hollywood Science Fiction Film\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new understanding of the politics of science fiction in particular and utopian thought in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Warwick is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344412827955,"sku":"9781836245100","price":87.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/PExN4G6Sux9781836245100.webp?v=1778725488","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/dystopia-and-dispossession-in-the-hollywood-science-fiction-film-1979-2017-the-aesthetics-of-enclosure-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}