Contemporary American science fiction film / edited by Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McSweeney, Terence, 1974- editor.

Joy, Stuart, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Isaac Norris Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction films--United States--History and criticism.

Science fiction films.

Motion pictures.

History.

United States.

Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Terence McSweeney is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University and the author of The 'War on Terror' and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second (EUP, 2014), Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wallflower, 2018) and Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon (University of Mississippi Press, 2021). Stuart Joy is Senior Lecturer in Film and television at Southampton Solent University and the author of The Traumatic Screen: The Films of Christopher Nolan (2020), co-editor of, and contributor to The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible (Wallflower, 2015) and Through the Black Mirror: Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age (Palgrave, 2019)

Contents:

Introduction: The fears and fantasies of science fiction film : genre as cultural artefact / Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy

A tale as old as time : Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial intelligence (2001) / Christine Muller

Through the lens of 9/11 : reflections of Bush era politics and the post-9/11 milieu in Minority report (2002) and V for Vendetta (2006) / Fran Pheasant Kelly

Precarious lives, human rights and "the sense of today" : the continuing resonance and relevance of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of men (2006) / Terence McSweeney

Seeing and touching the bodies of others : evolving the male animal toward secular moral enlightenment in the Planet of the apes reboot franchise / Carol Donelan

Time travel, trauma and the futility of revenge in Looper (2012) / Stuart Joy

Science fiction cinema between arthouse and blockbuster : from Stanley Kubrick's 2001 to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) / Steffen Hantke

21st-century Star wars : profiles in (female) courage / Stacey Peebles

Rationality, emotionality and geopolitics in Arrival (2016) : from structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to 'quality' status / Geoff King

"The world is built on a wall" : deconstructing Blade runner 2049 (2017) / Will Brooker

Speculative anger and collective economic strength in Boots Riley's Sorry to bother you (2018) / Paul Petrovic

Coping with the deconstruction of American identity : hybridization and self-destruction in Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) / Andrew Schopp

Wakanda forever? On Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018) / Gerry Canavan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Contemporary American science fiction film

ISBN:

9781003189961

1003189962

9781000540635

1000540634

9781000540642

1000540642

Publisher Number:

40030998938

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