Dystopian fiction -- See Dystopias Literally, "bad place." Use for works that are accounts of imaginary worlds, usually in the future, in which present tendencies, beliefs, principles, or theories are carried out to their intensely unpleasant culmination. Examples include George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave new world.
Dystopian films -- See Also Planet of the Apes films When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about Planet of the Apes films.
Dystopian science fiction films -- See Dystopian films This heading is used as a genre/form heading for films set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc. Films set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event are entered under Apocalyptic films.
Dystopic films -- See Dystopian films This heading is used as a genre/form heading for films set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc. Films set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event are entered under Apocalyptic films.
Dystopic science fiction films -- See Dystopian films This heading is used as a genre/form heading for films set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc. Films set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event are entered under Apocalyptic films.
