"Dystopian Fiction East and West suggests that the utopian pursuit of "the best of all possible worlds" is driven less by the search for happiness than by a determined faith in justice. Conversely, the world of dystopian fiction presents us with a society where the ruling elite …
Introduction -- The road not taken -- The red sextet -- Calling Dr. Death -- Creatures from the id -- Worlds elsewhere -- Amid the alien corn -- Apocalypse then -- Red skies over China -- "Better dead than red"--Commies, commies everywhere -- Microfilm mania -- Madness risen fro…
Examining the works of key directors such as Bunuel, Erice and Almodovar, as well as works from the popular cinema and television, this study explores how film portrays the political and cultural tensions related to the creation of a Spanish national identity.
"A reconstruction of Cold War-era cultural networks between the Second and Third Worlds that offers a compelling genealogy of contemporary postcolonial studies. Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. Although mos…
New perspectives on historical writing
"What does the good life mean in a "backward" place? As communist regimes denigrated widespread unemployment and consumer excess in Western countries, socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their apparent ability to satisfy consumers' ne…
