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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1736
dc.title	La trilogia distopica di Terry Gilliam: il presente e il futuribile
dc.contributor.author	Oddi Stefano
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2019/1supplemento/la-trilogia-distopica-di-terry-gilliam-il-presente/
dc.description.abstract	The article focuses on Terry Gilliam’s so-called ‘Orwellian triptych’, a science fiction trilogy in which the director uses dystopia as a way to highlight some of the major concerns of the Western World. While Brazil (1984) reflects the fear of an all-pervading Capitalism through its Kafkaesque, overbureaucratized universe and The Zero Theorem (2013) aims to describe “the perils of our digitised existence” (Andrew Pulver), Twelve Monkeys (1995) pictures an apocalyptic future in which the human race has been wiped out by a deadly virus mirroring the threat of HIV, and the survivors have been turned into guinea pigs by the members of a grotesque medical oligarchy.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 53 \| December 2019
dc.issued	2019-11-27
dc.dateAccepted	2019-04-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-03-07
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2019/01/034
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Apocalypse
dc.subject	Apocalypse
dc.subject	Cinema
dc.subject	Cinema
dc.subject	Dystopia
dc.subject	Dystopia
dc.subject	Science fiction
dc.subject	Science fiction
dc.subject	Terry Gilliam
dc.subject	Terry Gilliam

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La trilogia distopica di Terry Gilliam: il presente e il futuribile

Stefano Oddi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

The article focuses on Terry Gilliam’s so-called ‘Orwellian triptych’, a science fiction trilogy in which the director uses dystopia as a way to highlight some of the major concerns of the Western World. While Brazil (1984) reflects the fear of an all-pervading Capitalism through its Kafkaesque, overbureaucratized universe and The Zero Theorem (2013) aims to describe “the perils of our digitised existence” (Andrew Pulver), Twelve Monkeys (1995) pictures an apocalyptic future in which the human race has been wiped out by a deadly virus mirroring the threat of HIV, and the survivors have been turned into guinea pigs by the members of a grotesque medical oligarchy.

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Nov. 27, 2019

Accepted

April 20, 2019

Submitted

March 7, 2019

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Keywords: Cinema • Dystopia • Apocalypse • Science fiction • Terry Gilliam

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