Affiliation:
1. Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter examines how utopian thinking has influenced the broad field of science fiction (sf) narratives, focusing on three examples: Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010), Luc Besson’s Lucy (2014), and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011). While these films are not conventional utopian narratives, which envision futuristic cities or ideal societies, the chapter using them to show how the notion of utopia can serve as an analytic method to help us understand the ways in which films try to dismantle and recast human subjectivity through innovative narrative structures.
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