Bread And Circuses In Sci-Fi Films

Streaming video - 2020

The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Running Man, Rollerball, and Ready Player One are wildly different sci-fi films which derive their premise from a line of poetry by the ancient Roman satirist Juvenal. How has a simple motif about "bread and circuses" powered some of the most memorable sci-fi plots in cinema?

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Education films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses 2020.
2021.
Language
English
Other Authors
The Great Courses (film director), Greg Aldrete (actor)
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