Contemporary American science fiction film. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy.
• Editors: McSweeney, Terence, 1974-; Joy, Stuart
• Contents: Introduction: The Fears and Fantasies of Science Fiction Film: Genre as Cultural Artefact Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy 1. A Tale as Old as Time: Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Christine Muller 2. 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 3. Precarious Lives, Human Rights and "the sense of today": The Continuing Resonance and Relevance of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006) Terence McSweeney 4. 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 5. Time Travel, Trauma and The Futility of Revenge in Looper (2012) Stuart Joy 6. Science Fiction Cinema between Arthouse and Blockbuster: From Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) Steffen Hantke 7. 21st -Century Star Wars: Profiles in (Female) Courage Stacey Peebles 8. Rationality, emotionality and geopolitics in Arrival (2016): from structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to ‘quality’ status Geoff King 9. "The World Is Built on A Wall": Deconstructing Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Will Brooker 10. Speculative Anger and Collective Economic Strength in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018) Paul Petrovic 11. Coping with the Deconstruction of American Identity: Hybridization and Self-destruction in Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) Andrew Schopp 12. Wakanda Forever? On Rya nCoogler’s Black Panther ( 2018) Gerry Canavan
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 791.43615; Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000540642; 9781000540635; 9781003189961
• Related ISBNs: 9781032039640
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