1. Dystopia, A weapon that only Hope can make effective

2. Dystopia can be found in many artistic areas Dystopia LiteratureCinemaComicsMusic Dystopia

3. Let's put all this into a context… Science-Fiction UchroniaDystopiaUtopia

4. Distopia ≠ Utopia Uchronia or Alternate History

5. Dystopia’s main features - Foresight - Citicism (political, economic and social, scientific and technological systems) - Denunciation / Warning

6. Hope, an essential element -Heart of the communicative power of dystopian works -Motor of the human actions -Hauling element of mankind -Remedy against fear

8. “2 + 2 =” Pure coincidence or sign of the unconscious inherent hope of mankind?

9. Sources of the images: -E. Drooker, Censorship, Drawings, www.drooker.comwww.drooker.com -G. Klimt, Hope I (Die Hoffnung I), 1903 - Children of Men, A. Cuarón, United Kingdom, 2006 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, M. Radford, United Kingdom, 1984 -G. Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin Modern Classics, United Kingdom, 1969 - Idiocracy, M. Judge, USA, 2006 -P. Dick, La svastica sul sole, Editrice Nord, Milano, 1993 Created by: Anna Anastasopoulos