The philosophy of science fiction film /
The science fiction genre maintains a remarkable hold on the imagination and enthusiasm of the filmgoing public, captivating large audiences worldwide and garnering ever-larger profits. The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film explores the storylines, conflicts, and themes of fifteen science fiction f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2008]
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Colección: | Philosophy of popular culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An introduction to the philosophy of science fiction film / Steven M. Sanders
- Enigmas of identity and agency
- What is it to be human? : Blade runner and Dark city / Deborah Knight and George McKnight
- Recalling the self : personal identity in Total recall / Shai Biderman
- Picturing paranoia : interpreting Invasion of the body snatchers / Steven M. Sanders
- The existential Fankenstein / Jennifer L. McMahon
- Extraterrestrial visitation, time travel, and artificial intelligence
- Technology and ethics in The day the earth stood still / Aeon J. Skoble
- Some paradoxes of time travel in The terminator and 12 monkeys / William J. Devlin
- 2001 : a philosophical odyssey / Kevin L. Stoehr
- Terminator-fear and the paradox of fiction / Jason Holt
- Brave newer world : science fiction futurism
- The dialectic of Enlightenment in Metropolis / Jerold J. Abrams
- Imagining the future, contemplating the past : the screen versions of 1984 / R. Barton Palmer
- Disenchantment and rebellion in Alphaville / Alan Woolfolk
- The matrix, the cave, and the cogito / Mark T. Conard.