Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian-and so do its television shows. Long-form science...
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Author: Sherryl Vint
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Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV by Vint, Sherryl

Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

BD$75.15

Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

BD$75.15
Author: Sherryl Vint
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian-and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian extrapolations to spotlight the possibility of building a better world.


Programming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castle, The Expanse, and Mr. Robot. They argue that science fiction television foregrounds governance as part of explaining the novel institutions and norms of its imagined futures. In so doing, SF shows allegorize and critique contemporary social, political, and economic developments, helping audiences resist the naturalization of the status quo. Vint and Alexander also draw on queer theory to explore the representation of family structures and their relationship to larger social structures. Recasting both dystopian and utopian narratives, Programming the Future shows how depictions of alternative-world political struggles speak to urgent real-world issues of identity, belonging, and social and political change.



Author: Sherryl Vint
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780231198318

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