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Year 8 English The Giver: Dystopian Genre

Further Reading Suggestions

What is Dystopia?

dys·to·pi·a
n.
1. An imaginary place or state 
in which the condition of life is 
extremely bad, as from deprivation,
oppression, or terror.
2. work describing such a 
place or state: "dystopias such 
as Brave New World" 
(Times Literary Supplement).
 
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Why is the Dystopian Genre popular?

Dystopia - Characteristics

ClickView Audio: Dystopias in Science Fiction

Clickview: Dystopia

Jennifer Byrne and her guests explore the very best and worst of literary worlds. Utopias and dystopias, those visions of a future in which we will either make it as a species - or go the way of the dodo.

Dystopian Films

1984 (1984)

Blade Runner (1982)

The Road (2009)

Gattaca (1997)

The Running Man (1987)

The Matrix (1999)

Children of Men (2006)

I am Legend (2007)

The Hunger Games (2012) (below)

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Mad Max movies (1979) (below)

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V for Vendetta (2005)

Minority Report (2002)

Dark City (1998)

12 Monkeys (1995)

Divergent series (2014)

The Maze Runner (2014) (below)

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City of Ember (2008)

I, Robot (2004)

The Island (2005)

Mortal Engines (2018)

WALL-E (2008) (below)

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ClickView: How to recognise a dystopia

Popular young adult dystopia authors

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