Silicon Valley Cinema / / Joe Street.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• VerfasserIn: Street, Joe,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations

Identifies in ‘Silicon Valley Cinema’ a recent trend in twenty-first century Hollywood filmReveals how ‘Silicon Valley Cinema’ builds upon previous Hollywood trendsAnalyses three distinct subtrends in ‘Silicon Valley Cinema’: biopics, films about the workplace, and science fiction action films, all...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1 Precursors
• Chapter 1 Technology and Surveillance in Millennial Hollywood
• Chapter 2 Critiquing Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
• Chapter 3 Hollywood’s Bay Area
• Part 2 Real Genius
• Chapter 4 The Silicon Valley Biopic
• Chapter 5 Constructing the Silicon Valley Icon
• Part 3 Silicon Valley’s Dystopian Utopia
• Chapter 6 Technology Solutionism and the World of Work
• Chapter 7 Dystopian Diversity
• Part 4 Silicon Valley’s Evil Geniuses
• Chapter 8 Posthumanity and Masculinity
• Chapter 9 The Turbo-capitalist Tech Bro
• Conclusion: Why Him? and the Dialectics of Silicon Valley Cinema
• Bibliography
• Index