The Rhetoric of Dystopia is a fascinating, path-breaking and insightful elaboration on literary and cinematic depictions of dystopian worlds and on the ambiguous politics of literacy and art. Its elegant prose and compelling argumentation make the book an engaging, thought-provoking and valuable analysis of aesthetic responses to pandemics, climatological and geopolitical ills, contrasts of abundance and deprivation, nuclear threat and environmental inequities.

Marianna Papastephanou, Department of Education, University of Cyprus

Carter offers a deeply compelling analysis of the dystopian aesthetic in cultural production, reading the films and novels of crisis and collapse not as the despairing lamentations they might seem, but as vital reminders that a better world is possible.

James R. Daniel, Seton Hall University