Endangering Science Fiction Film
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Sean Redmond (Útgáfa: 1)
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Endangering Science Fiction Film explores the ways in which science fiction film is a dangerous and endangering genre. The collection argues that science fiction's cinematic power rests in its ability to imagine ‘Other’ worlds that challenge and disturb the lived conditions of the ‘real’ world, as it is presently known to us. From classic films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris to modern blockbusters including World War Z and Gravity, and directors from David Cronenberg to Alfonso Cuarón, contributors comment on the way science fiction film engages with dangerous encounters, liminal experiences, sublime aesthetics, and untethers space and time to question the very nature of human existence.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781317646518
- 9781138792623
- ePub
- 1
- Sean Redmond
- English
- 2015-06-26
- 100
- 2
- 2
Kaflar
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- contents
- acknowledgments
- 1. we are in danger
- section one: the philosophy of science fiction endangerment
- 2. section one introduction
- 3. kubrick’s 2001 and the dangers of techno-dystopia
- 4. eye-tracking the sublime in spectacular moments of science fiction film
- 5. hope in children of men and firefly/serenity: nihilism, waste, and the dialectics of the sublime
- 6. biopolitics and the war on terror in world war z and monsters
- section two: dangerous aesthetics
- 7. section two introduction
- 8. narrative, aesthetics, and cultural imperatives in recent science fiction films
- 9. adventures in perception: endangering the spectator in science fiction cinema
- 10. sleeping/waking: politicizing the sublime in science fiction film special effects
- 11. tarkovsky’s solaris and the (im)possibility of a science fiction cinema
- section three: spectacular space and the annihilation of time
- 12. section three introduction
- 13. subversive topologies: space, time, and dystopia in the films of gustavo mosquera
- 14. escape from the dialectic of enlightenment and disaster? authenticity, agency, and alien space
- 15. science fiction: what’s wrong? the sounds of danger versus hearing dangerously
- section four: bodily extinctions and bodily becomings
- 16. section four introduction
- 17. robots, androids, aliens, and others: the erotics and politics of science fiction film
- 18. the persistence of the robot
- 19. a danger to self and others: the cinema of david cronenberg
- contributors
- about the american film institute
- index