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Television Genres

This research guide points to resources on different genres shown on Television.
  • Basic information
  • Action & adventure television
  • Biographical television shows
  • Cartoons and televised anime
  • Children's television
  • Comedies
    • I Love Lucy
  • Cop shows
  • Documentary television programs
  • Dystopian television programs
  • Fantasy television programs
  • Game shows
  • Historical television programs
  • Horror television programs
  • Internet TV
  • Legal shows
  • Live television programs
  • Made-for-TV movies
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  • Religion on television
  • Science fiction
    • Star Trek
    • Doctor Who
  • Soaps
  • Spy shows
  • Superheroes on television
  • Talk shows
  • Television dramas
  • Variety shows
  • Westerns

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Finding library resources for dystopian television

You can use the subject heading below to find items we have about dystopian television. To find more items, use the Search option to find articles, book chapters and more.

  • dystopian television programs

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover ArtThe digital dystopias of Black Mirror and Electric Dreams by Steven Keslowitz
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .D97 K47 2020
    ISBN: 9781476678689
    This critical examination of two dystopian television series--Black Mirror and Electric Dreams--focuses on pop culture depictions of technology and its impact on human existence. Representations of a wide range of modern and futuristic technologies are explored, from early portrayals of artificial intelligence to digital consciousness transference as envisioned in Black Mirror's "San Junipero. ...
  • Cover ArtGender in Post-9/11 American apocalyptic TV: representations of masculinity and femininity at the end of the world by Eve Bennett
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry HQ 1090.3 .B46 2020
    ISBN: 9781501366536
    In the years following 9/11, American TV developed a preoccupation with apocalypse. Science fiction and fantasy shows ranging from Firefly to Heroes, from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica to Lost, envisaged scenarios in which world-changing disasters were either threatened or actually took place. During the same period numerous commentators observed that the American media's representation of gender had undergone a marked regression, possibly, it was suggested, as a consequence of the 9/11 attacks and the feelings of weakness and insecurity they engendered in the nation's men. Eve Bennett investigates whether the same impulse to return to traditional images of masculinity and femininity can be found in the contemporary cycle of apocalyptic series, programmes which, like 9/11 itself, present plenty of opportunity for narratives of damsels-in-distress and heroic male rescuers. However, as this book shows, whether such narratives play out in the expected manner is another matter.
  • Cover ArtPlanet of the Apes as American myth: race, politics, and popular culture by Eric Greene
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .P495 G74 1998
    ISBN: 9780819563293
    A lively exploration of the Planet of the Apes films as racial allegory. In 1968, Planet of the Apes became a megahit movie both in the US and abroad, inspiring four film sequels, two TV series, several comic series, and hundreds of millions of dollars in worldwide merchandising. The Apes films confronted some of the most controversial issues of the time, including Vietnam and the Black Power movement, all the while remaining crowd pleasing box office hits. Eric Greene uses rare photographs, transcripts, and extensive interviews with the writers, directors, actors, and producers to read the Apes saga as a profoundly American myth. Greene also looks at the attempts of filmmakers like Oliver Stone and James Cameron to remake the myth for the 90s. ...
  • Cover ArtWorlds gone awry: essays on dystopeian fiction by John J. Han; C. Clark Triplett; Ashley G. Anthony, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 56 .D94 W67 2018
    ISBN: 9781476671802
    Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails.

Finding scholarly articles and journal titles

You can find articles about dystopian television in many publications. You can start your research with Film & Television Literature Index or use a more multi-subject index such as Web of Science. You can also use the search box at the top of the page to find articles.

  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Selected dystopian television show(s)

Find more dystopian television in the library's online catalog.

  • Title cardA handmaid's tale by Bruce Miller
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #21408
    A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
  • Title cardMax Headroom by George Stone; Rocky Morton; Annabel Jankel
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #23186
    After a television reporter is almost killed by his boss, a technology expert makes a copy of the reporter's mind and turns it into a character on a television screen.
  • Cover ArtSurvivors by Adrian Hodges; Terry Nation
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #20846
    ISBN: 9781419888540
    Present-day Britain has fallen prey to a particularly nasty influenza virus. Within days, it's clear that the disease won't be easily contained; within a couple of weeks, at least 90 percent of the population has died from it, not merely in England but across the planet. As the world as they know it quickly falls apart--no electricity, no communications, no mass transit, no readily available medical care--and those who survived due to immunity start to sort themselves out, the show narrows its focus on one disparate and distinctly multicultural group: ...
  • Title cardWatchmen. Season 1 by Damon Lindelof
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #22732
    In an alternate history world where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Detective Angela Abar investigates the reawakening of an extremist terrorist group as they plan to start a mutiny against government agencies.

Internet resource(s)

  • TVShowPilot logo
    The 11 best Dystopian TV shows from TVShowPilot.com
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    According to Masterclass, there are five characteristics of dystopian fiction: government control, environmental destruction, technological control, survival, and loss of individualism. In a nutshell, this means there is either no government or an incredibly oppressive one, technology is used as a control or fear-mongering device, the physical environment is uninhabitable or destroyed, people are left to fend for themselves, and we are all practically brainwashed to conform. Now that is a future that no one wants to envision, but is absolutely fascinating to see play out on the big screen. ...
  • The 13 shows that defined Dystopian TV before The Handmaid’s Tale by Laura Hudson from Vulture
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    Dystopian fiction is having something of a renaissance these days, and The Handmaid’s Tale, a powerhouse speculative-fiction tale about a totalitarian theocracy in America, is the latest to captivate and terrify audiences. But it’s far from alone on the small screen. The last decade has been rife with dystopian TV shows that reflect our growing anxieties about surveillance, climate change, the erosion of civil liberties, and the end of the world as we know it. Below, Vulture picks out the shows that defined the modern TV dystopia. ...
  • 18 Dystopian TV shows that don’t seem so different from our current world from sheknows
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    Which dystopia would you rather live in: the year we’re currently having, or one of these fictional universes? For many people, it seems the answer is anywhere but here. At a time when everything feels like it’s falling apart, people have taken more interest than ever in dystopian sci-fi, worst-case scenario visions of what past authors feared would come to pass. ... [Louise Ballhaus; 01/14/2022]
  • Reelgood logo
    Best TV shows streaming online from Reelgood
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    Finding a good Dystopia TV show to watch can be hard, so they've ranked the best ones and included where to watch them. Check out our list of the best Dystopia TV shows of all time streaming online.
  • Wikipedia logo
    Dystopian television shows from Wikipedia
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