The Matrix trilogy : cyberpunk reloaded / edited by Stacy Gillis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillis, Stacy, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Matrix (Motion picture).

Matrix reloaded (Motion picture).

Matrix revolutions (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower, 2005.

Summary:

"The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded" is a collection of critical essays on the massive phenomenon that is the three "Matrix" films, including the subsequent Web sites, computer games and The Animatrix films. Among the topics considered are the new cyberpunk, Baudrillarian simulacra, the politics of gender and race, the femme fatale, costume, cyberculture and the body, virtual realities and special effects. Discussing both the influences on the trilogy and the impact they have had since their release, the contributors to this collection provide critically innovative readings of the franchise. "The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded" is a long-awaited exploration of a modern film phenomenon and is the first academic publication to consider the films as a cultural event.

Contents:

Media Intertexts and Contexts

Vectorial Dynamics: Transtextuality and Complexity in the Matrix / Aylish Wood 11

'You Hear About Them All the Time': A Genealogy of the Sentient Program / Andrew Shail 23

The Rules of the Game, The Burden of Narrative: Enter the Matrix / Diane Carr 36

Virtual Actors, Spectacle and Special Effects: Kung Fu Meets 'All That CGI Bullshit' / Dan North 48

The Transparency of the Interface: Reality Hacking and Fantasies of Resistance / Thomas Foster 62

Cyber Noir: Cyberspace, (Post)Feminism and the Femme Fatale / Stacy Gillis 74

The Politics of Modernity and Postmodernity

Playing it Cool in The Matrix / Claudia Springer 89

Moving The Matrix: Kinesic Excess and Post-industrial Being / Anne Cranny-Francis 101

Fashion, Fetish and Spectacle: The Matrix Dresses Up - and Down / Pamela Church Gibson 114

The Multiplication of Difference in Post-Millennial Cyberpunk Film: The Visual Culture of Race in the Matrix Trilogy / Lisa Nakamura 126

Changing Cyberspaces: Dystopia and Technological Excess / Kate O'Riordan 138

Baudrillardian Revolutions: Repetition and Radical Intervention in the Matrix Trilogy / Catherine Constable 151

Immanence, Autonomy and Integral Anomalies / Paul Sheehan 162

Gameography 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index.

Includes filmography: pages 186-188.

ISBN:

1904764339

1904764320

OCLC:

57485133