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050 00 $aPN3433.6$b.P35 2010
082 00 $a809.3/8762$222
100 1 $aPaik, Peter Yoonsuk.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00018021
245 10 $aFrom utopia to apocalypse :$bscience fiction and the politics of catastrophe /$cPeter Y. Paik.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $a207 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tThe God That Succeeded -- $g1.$tUtopia Achieved: The Case of Watchmen -- $g2.$tThe Defense of Necessity: On Jang Joon-Hwan's Save the Green Planet -- $g3.$tThe Saintly Politics of Catastrophe: Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind -- $g4.$tBetween Trauma and Tragedy: From The Matrix to V for Vendetta.
520 1 $a"Revolutionary narratives in recent science fiction graphic novels and films compel audiences to reflect on the politics and societal ills of the day. Through character and story, science fiction brings theory to life, giving shape to the motivations behind the action as well as to the consequences they produce." "In From Utopia to Apocalypse, Peter Y. Paik shows how science fiction generates intriguing and profound insights into politics. He reveals that the fantasy of putting annihilating omnipotence to beneficial effect underlies the revolutionary projects that have defined the collective upheavals of the modern age. Paik traces how this political theology is expressed, and indeed literalized, in popular superhero fiction, examining works including Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's graphic novel Watchmen, the science fiction cinema of Jang Joon-Hwan, the manga of Hayao Miyazaki, Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, and the Matrix trilogy. Superhero fantasies are usually seen as compensations for individual feelings of weakness, victimization, and vulnerability. But Paik presents these fantasies as social constructions concerned with questions of political will and the disintegration of democracy rather than with the psychology of the personal."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118631
650 0 $aUtopias in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141637
650 0 $aApocalypse in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002629
650 0 $aPolitics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104473
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $bmil$hPN3433.6$i.P35 2010