Dulltopia

Bould, Mark

Abstract

This essay questions Fredric Jameson's and Slavoj Zizek's recent claims that contemporary dystopias are just plain boring. It argues that if they are right, then we must dive deeper into boredom to locate dystopian critique of catastrophic neoliberal hegemony, and takes as its example two pieces of 'slow cinema' - the films AT SEA and DEAD SLOW AHEAD.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 19, 2017
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2017
• Journal: The Boston Review: Global Dystopias special issue
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 191-206
• Keywords: dystopia, slow cinema, at sea, dead slow ahead
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/880192
• Publisher URL: http://bostonreview.net/forum-iv