Jump to content

List of fictional police states

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Bender the Bot (talk | contribs) at 11:17, 18 October 2016 (http→https for Google Books and Google News using AWB). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Fictional police states have featured in a number of media ranging from novels to films[1] to video games.

List of works featuring a police state

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Orwell's novel describes Britain under a totalitarian regime that continuously invokes (and helps to create) a perpetual war. This perpetual war is used as a pretext for subjecting the people to mass surveillance and invasive police searches. The novel has been described as "the definitive fictional treatment of a police state, which has also influenced contemporary usage of the term."[2]
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The elite of the capital city dominate, exploit and repress the rest of what is left of an impoverished United States.[3]
  • THX 1138 directed by George Lucas. This 1971 film echoed contemporary images of police beating up anti-Vietnam War protestors.[4]
  • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The novel is about the "One State" where people live in glass homes and have no privacy.[5]
  • "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury. A fascist state is inadvertently created by time travelers as a result of the Butterfly effect.
  • "Babylon 5" TV series, (1) Earth Alliance government under President Morgan Clark who ascended from being Vice President, after assassinating President Luis Santiago and other moderates, used hard line military units, Psi Corp, Nightwatch, & other factions to crush all dissent, which led to civil war with the anti fascist military units, government officials, & civilians, (2) Centauri Republic under the rule of the insane Emperor Cartagia & the more extreme lords in the nobility, led by Lord Refa, Cartagia rose to power with the death of his uncle Emperor Turhan & Prime Minister Malachi, assassinated, punished, slaughtered anyone that became obstacles to power

References

  1. ^ Young Adult Science Fiction - Charles William Sullivan - Google Books. Greenwood. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  2. ^ The Encyclopedia of Police Science. CRC Press. p. 1004.
  3. ^ Todd McCarthy (March 15, 2012). "The Hunger Games: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  4. ^ Annette Kuhn. Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. Verso. p. 22.
  5. ^ Rodden, John (2002). George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation. Transaction Publisher. p. 204. ISBN 9780765808967. Zamyatin's We (1924), another terrifying police state utopia, whose citizens live without privacy in glass apartments.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_fictional_police_states&oldid=744944199"