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Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012)

2018; Duke University Press; Volume: 2018; Issue: 131 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/01636545-4355293

1534-1453

Keith B. Wagner,

Political and Economic history of UK and US

Research Article| May 01 2018 Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012) Keith B. Wagner Keith B. Wagner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 164–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355293 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Keith B. Wagner; Hollywood, the Global South, and Total Recall (2012). Radical History Review 1 May 2018; 2018 (131): 164–167. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355293 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search The Global South is often presented as a geopolitical reconsideration of Area Studies and a concept gaining much traction across the social sciences. This short essay will theorize Len Wiseman’s Total Recall (2012) as a spatial analogy for the Global South. Through a comparison of two futuristic megacities—one generic and prosperous in the United Federation of Britain “UFB” and the other globally disadvantaged and named the Colony or “New Asia”—Total Recall is examined as depicting the stratification of the planet but also, more crucially, as a film that communicates the Global South as a newer cinematic invention problematized by Hollywood. My second aim in this essay is to introduce the term Aesthetic Cooperation among Developing and Developed Countries (ACDDC) as a means to stress aesthetic hybridity beyond any one style and any one conception of our many North and South urban metropoles on screen, and one Hollywood experiments with through the genre of science fiction. The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Global South, Hollywood, Total Recall, Aesthetic Cooperation among Developing and Developed Countries (ACDDC), spatial analogy, megacity Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc.2018 You do not currently have access to this content.