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11No Exit: Death Drive, Dystopia, and the Long Winter of the American Dream in Harold Ramis's The Ice HarvestUtopian Studies 34 (3): 380-398. 2024.This article examines Harold Ramis’s 2005 noir comedy _The Ice Harvest_ as the critically dystopian counter-panel to his beloved 1993 film _Groundhog Day_, a film frequently discussed within the paradigm of utopia. While starkly different in genre, tone, and reception, the two films comprise a dialectical dyad that registers the historical transition from the utopian cultural effervescence of the early 1990s to the tragic foreclosure of imaginative horizons and the dystopian transformation of ec…Read more
Eric Smith
Marywood University
Marywood University
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Marywood UniversityUndergraduate
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