Science Fiction Film : : Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism / / Eli Park Sorensen.
Provides an innovative theoretical approach to sci-fi films from the late 1970s to the presentHighlights the specifically political dimension of sci-fi works and demonstrates how they speak directly to current political sentiments, thus providing a new theoretical framework for understanding certain...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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