American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

by Robert Yeates

American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction traces representations of future urban ruin across twentieth- and twenty-first-century American popular culture. Surveying pulp magazines, radio dramas, films, video games, and the transmedia franchise, Robert Yeates explores how the meeting of technological innovation with speculative imagination creates a compelling space in which to imagine and re-imagine potential urban futures. Through a series of medium-specific case studies, Yeates suggests new approaches to familiar texts such as Blade Runner and The Walking Dead, situating these within the larger history of ruined cities in American literature.
 

212 pages, Hardcover

Published November 15, 2021

About the author

Robert Yeates is Associate Professor of American Literature at Okayama University, Japan.