Science fiction film : predicting the impossible in the age of neoliberalism / Eli Park Sorensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorensen, Eli Park, 1979- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction films--Political aspects.

Science fiction films.

Politics in motion pictures.

Science fiction films--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION Science Fiction Film in the Age of Neoliberalism

CHAPTER 1 Between Friends and Enemies: Ridley Scott’s Alien

CHAPTER 2 Monopolizing the Future: Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and Schmitt’s Exception

CHAPTER 3 The Anomalous World: Elysium and the Invention of the Med-Bay Machine

CHAPTER 4 Blade Runner and the Right to Life

CHAPTER 5 Terminating the State of Exception: Oblivion and the Problem of Exceptional Being

CHAPTER 6 Escaping the Production of Bare Life: Blade Runner 2049 and the Miracle of Birth

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Sorensen, Eli Park Science Fiction Film

ISBN:

1-4744-8187-6

1-3995-0914-4

1-4744-8186-8

OCLC:

1292972397