Joker y Oxygène, el miedo distópico como motor conservador

Dystopian artistic and cultural productions are closely related to the context in which they are created and read, since the universe they contain is built on the hyperbole of elements of the society where they arise and seek to be a warning to the recipients who receive them. From this perspective,...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Hellín Nistal, Lucía
Format: article
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repository:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/716999
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/716999
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Joker
Oxygène
distopía
pandemia
utopía
Filología
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Summary:Dystopian artistic and cultural productions are closely related to the context in which they are created and read, since the universe they contain is built on the hyperbole of elements of the society where they arise and seek to be a warning to the recipients who receive them. From this perspective, we will analyze two film productions from our time of neoliberal capitalism, Joker (2019) by Todd Philips and Oxygène (2021) by Alexandre Aja, made before and after the outbreak of the COVID pandemic. We will focus in our study on the ideological mechanisms and utopian elements according to Fredric Jameson's conception that cause a conservative impulse