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Bread And Circuses In Sci-Fi Films [efilm]

2021
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 plo...
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