ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with an introduction to the study's overarching problematic: the international and national public spheres are swamped by mass-mediated scenarios concerning risks'. Films of dystopian and science fiction content partake in this venture, and the book focuses on them. It suggests that the author's dystopian films involve an examination of manufactured' futures that rework humanity's gruesome pasts. Such reworking of past realities in dark and slum tourist spaces is based on the ability of filmmakers to operate as critical pilgrims', armed with technologies that record the causes of misery. The book commences a combined in-depth analysis of the selected films, with District 9 as its primary case study. Delving into the genealogies of African aesthetic traditions, it seeks to explain what District 9's controversy over cannibalism is really about. Finally, it provides some concluding reflections for the study.
