This article investigates how the TV series Westworld fits into the contemporary dystopian wave, and its depiction of a crisis of the modern humanist subject. Other issues stressed throughout the article are the relationship between humans and machines, the resignification of the codes of cinematic western, the series’ narrative complexity, and the allusions to still life painting’s iconography.
Westworld; Dystopia; Cyber-paranoia; Trompe-l’oeil
