Κατεύθυνση Πολιτική Επικοινωνία και Νέα Μέσα
Library of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology

2019-06-27

2019

Selveri Maria-Eleni

Λίζα Τσαλίκη, αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης, ΕΚΠΑ.

Πολιτική και Τηλεόραση: Η δυστοπική πραγματικότητα του Handmaid's Tale

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Politics and Television: The dystopian reality of the Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale television series convincingly illustrates how the shrinking freedom in America has evolved and has led to the fictional monolithic, theocratic regime of Gilead that punishes abortion by death, with references to the terrorist intolerance of the first American Puritans, and based on its "literal" Bible, to combat birth deficit and infertility. Although it can be described as a prediction of a dystopian future, it is more like a frightening depiction of totalitarian oppression regimes. Projection of the series coincides with the US elections (2016), creating inevitable parallelisms among reality and imagination in relation to the misogynistic behavior of US President Trump and his government. The aim of this thesis is to highlight in both theoretical and research level the dangers and consequences of an imposed utopianism. More specifically, it presents risk society - where birth deficit, climate and environmental disaster, terrorism and racism are problems that have led to the creation of the dystopian Gilead - and reflects the social classes, femininity, the role of religion, its influence on the language and the power relations as they are shaped in the series.

Social, Political and Economic sciences

Handmaid's Tale, Gilead, utopia, dystopia, risk society, totalitarian regimes, religion, reproduction, femininity, human rights, power relations

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