Science fiction film : predicting the impossible in the age of neoliberalism /

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sorensen, Eli Park (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Colección:Film, Media and Cultural Studies.
Temas:
Science fiction films > Political aspects.
Politics in motion pictures.
Science fiction films > Social aspects.
Neoliberalism.
Films de science-fiction > Aspect politique.
Politique au cinéma.
Films de science-fiction > Aspect social.
Néo-libéralisme.
Neoliberalism
Politics in motion pictures
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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