Mid-Century Modern Design as a Cinematic Vision of Dystopia Based on Selected Examples of the 21st-Century Films and TV Series by Anna Wiśnicka

“…The text aims to investigate various uses of the mid-century modern period pieces in the production design of films and TV series developed after the year 2000 and presenting various visions of a dystopic future. The choice of time frame for the analysis was motivated by the desire to showcase the connotations between the mid-century modern and 21st-century visions of the future which can be broadly described as retrofuturistic. …”
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A Mortal Visits the Other World – the Relativity of Time in Estonian Fairy Tales by Mairi Kaasik

“…Although the tales contain several features that make them close to legends (a concrete place and personal names, the topic of death, dystopic endings, characters belonging to the reality of legends, etc.), based on Estonian material they can be regarded as part of fairy tales.…”
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