Broken Mirrors: Representations of Apocalypses and Dystopias in Popular Culture

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Welcome to the Beginning of the End of Everything • Joe Trotta and Houman Sadri
1 A Light That Never Goes Out: Bare Life and the Possibility of Ethics in McCarthy’s The Road • Zlatan Filipovic
2 Hopeful Dystopias? Figures of Hope in the Brazilian Science Fiction Series 3% • Michael Godhe
3 Hopeful Hybridities: Transformative Interspecies Relationships in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Visual Narratives • Ariel Kahn
4 Dystopia and Utopia after Darwin: Using Evolution to Explain Edward Bulwer Lytton’s The Coming Race • Emelie Jonsson
5 Is this the Futu.re? Russian Cosmism and the Construction of an Immor(t)al Utopia • Iril Hove Ullestad
6 The Mexican Sicario Against the End of the World • Gabriela Mercado
7 Post-apocalyptic Play: Representations of the End of the City in Video Games • Emma Fraser
8 The Future in Ruins: The Uses of Derelict Buildings and Monuments in Post-apocalyptic Film and Literature • Jerry Määttä
9 The Zombie as a Pronoun: What Pronouns Are Used and Why? • Linda Flores Ohlson
10 A Corpus-informed Study of Apocalyptic/Dystopian Texts • Joe Trotta
11 Original Sin as Salvation: The Apocalyptic Boon in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials • Houman Sadri
Notes on Contributors
Index