Sentences with phrase «dystopia narrative»

While you could argue these descriptions fall into another common trope of dystopia narratives — sometimes called «But Not Too Foreign» — where characters in sci - fi or futuristic situations are often mixed race, it's explicit that they are not written as white.

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Like the cursed fig tree withered from leaf to root in Mark's passion narrative, the infertility that plagues Atwood's dystopia is a prophetic sign of the withering of a whole culture.

Set in a darkly imagined, underwater Ayn Randian dystopia and rife with deep narrative and philosophical themes, the game went beyond some standard video game tropes.

It also uses these maps more for narrative, like having history explaining statues in some areas of the dystopia, the specialized buildings in the compound, and just having a section of the swamps populated by tourists and street performers.

Hyper - saturated and headache - inducing, Maclean's films are set in digitally rendered, rainbow - coloured dystopias, combining looping narratives and musical interludes.

The media of the show is diverse, ranging from classical modes like painting and sculpture, to experimental video and animation, and using the tropes of science fiction including dystopia, cosmology, and fantasy to restructure narratives and create alternate realities.

Together, they constitute an extended reflection on mediated narratives of dystopia and violence, isolation and utopia, appropriately dispersed across the city.