Transmedia dystopias and fantasies: exploring totalitarianism across media
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| Formatua: | artículo original |
| Egoera: | Versión publicada |
| Argitaratze data: | 2026 |
| Deskribapena: | This article examines how contemporary transmedia narratives represent and critically interrogate totalitarianism, drawing on the intellectual lineage of twentieth-century dystopian literature by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Ray Bradbury. By analyzing six case studies across television, film, video games, and musical, including Snowpiercer, The Handmaid’s Tale, BioShock Infinite, Papers, Please, Wish, and Wicked. The study identifies four distinct forms of authoritarian governance: technocratic, theocratic, bureaucratic, and personalist. A qualitative, interpretive methodology grounded in Cultural Studies and transmedia narratology allows for a comparative analysis of mechanisms such as scarcity, surveillance, propaganda, and charismatic leadership. The findings highlight how these narratives translate classical dystopian critiques into contemporary media ecologies, fostering critical reflection on authority, social control, and resistance. By linking theory and empirical cases, the article demonstrates the pedagogical and analytical potential of transmedia storytelling for understanding the persistence and mutation of totalitarian logics in digital modernity. |
| Herria: | Portal de Revistas TEC |
| Erakundea: | Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas TEC |
| Hizkuntza: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/8724 |
| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/comunicacion/article/view/8724 |
| Gako-hitza: | Totalitarianism Dystopia Fantasy Transmedia storytelling Snowpiercer Papers please Bioshock infinite Wish Wicked The Handmaid’s Tale literature Totalitarismo Distopía Fantasía Narrativas transmedia Bioschock infinite El cuento de la criada literatura |