We charted the number of dystopian movies in the U.S. for each of the last 30 years, against economic downturns, and found that dystopian movies are counter-cyclical. That is, dystopian films do best when the economy is booming, and a fall in the number of dystopian movies may predict a recession.
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(x-posted to culturemonkey)
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 9:21 PM
Labels: consumer culture, dystopia, economics, recession, science fiction
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