Contemporary American Science Fiction Film
Title | Contemporary American Science Fiction Film PDF eBook |
Author | Terence McSweeney |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2022-02-21 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000540642 |
Contemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millennium, offering a ground-breaking investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern era. Placing one of the most popular and culturally resonant American film genres broadly within its rich social, historical, industrial, and political context, the book interrogates some of the defining critical debates of the era via an in-depth analysis of a range of important films. An international team of authors draw on case studies from across the science fiction genre to examine what these films can tell us about the time period, how the films themselves connect to the social and political context, how the fears and anxieties they portray resonate beyond the screen, and how the genre responds to the shifting coordinates of the Hollywood film industry. Offering new insights and perspectives on the cinematic science fiction genre, this volume will appeal primarily to scholars and students of film, television, cultural and media studies, as well as anyone interested in science fiction and speculative film.
Screening Space
Title | Screening Space PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian Carol Sobchack |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780813524924 |
This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists. The book should appeal to both film buff and fans of science fiction.
The Mouse Machine
Title | The Mouse Machine PDF eBook |
Author | J P. Telotte |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 235 |
Release | 2008-06-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0252033272 |
Throughout Disney's phenomenally successful run in the entertainment industry, the company has negotiated the use of cutting-edge film and media technologies that, J. P. Telotte argues, have proven fundamental to the company's identity. Disney's technological developments include the use of stereophonic surround sound for Fantasia, experimentation with wide-screen technology, inaugural adoption of three-strip Technicolor film, and early efforts at fostering depth in the animated image. Telotte also chronicles Disney's partnership with television, development of the theme park, and depiction of technology in science-fiction narratives. An in-depth discussion of Disney's shift into digital filmmaking with its Pixar partnership and an emphasis on digital special effects in live-action films, such as the Pirates of the Caribbean series, also highlight the studio's historical investment in technology. By exploring the technological context for Disney creations throughout its history, The Mouse Machine illuminates Disney's extraordinary growth into one of the largest and most influential media and entertainment companies in the world. Hardbook is unjacketed.
Technoscience in Contemporary Film
Title | Technoscience in Contemporary Film PDF eBook |
Author | Aylish Wood |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780719057731 |
This analysis of images of science and technology from popular films of the 1980s and 1990s argues that films as diverse as the science fiction film Jurassic Park contribute to popular understandings of science and technology.
Films from the Future
Title | Films from the Future PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Maynard |
Publisher | Mango Media Inc. |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2018-11-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1633539067 |
“Deftly shows how a seemingly frivolous film genre can guide us in shaping tomorrow’s world.” —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and interplanetary travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibilities are very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? This book, by a physicist and expert on responsible technology development, reveals how science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine. Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take us on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Readers will gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies mix old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power of emerging technologies, and the responsibilities they come with.
Excavating the Future
Title | Excavating the Future PDF eBook |
Author | Shawn Malley |
Publisher | Liverpool Science Fiction Text |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1786941198 |
A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archaeological imagination and the political uses to which it is being employed by the U.S. state and its adversaries.
Science Fiction Film
Title | Science Fiction Film PDF eBook |
Author | Eli Park Sorensen |
Publisher | EUP |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2021-08-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781474481847 |
By presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre's important critical role in a post-political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajectories beyond the horizon of the present. Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt's thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s. Drawing on Schmitt's notion of the state of exception and its basis in the unpredictability of tomorrow, it looks at the political ramifications when the moment of the future finally arrives. With analysis of films such as Alien, Blade Runner and Minority Report, Eli Park Sorensen explores how power reconfigures itself to ensure the survival of the state, what 'society' means, who 'we, the people' are, and whether it will still be possible to retain a sphere of liberal, individual rights after the transformative event of the future.