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        The Ends of the Earth : Nature, Narrative and Identity in Dystopian Film

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        Hughes, Rowland
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        2299/12447
        Abstract
        This article offers a comparative ecocritical reading of two very different dystopian films: Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1971), and eXistenz (David Cronenberg, 1997). In particular, it interprets these films – which predict the potential ramifications of global environmental catastrophe and biotechnological progress – in relation to contrasting conceptualisations of ‘nature’ that might broadly be termed either ‘ecological’ or ‘postmodern’. It argues that despite the sf genre’s preoccupation with technologically advanced, virtual or urban environments, the concept of ‘nature’ and ‘the natural’ remains crucial to these films’ critique of authoritarian power structures that restrict individual self-expression, and their interrogation of human individuality and selfhood.
        Publication date
        2013-12
        Published in
        Critical Survey
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2013.250203
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        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/12447
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