Endangering science fiction film
By: edited by Sean Redmond and Leon Marvell
Series: AFI film readers; AFI film readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781138792630; 9781138792623
Subjects: History and criticism; Science fiction films; Action and adventure films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: endangering science fiction film / Sean Redmond and Leon Marvell; title: The philosophy of science fiction endangerment. introduction / Sean Redmond; title: Kubrick's 2001 and the dangers of techno-dystopia / Doug Kellner; title: Eye tracking the sublime in spectacular moments of science fiction film / Sean Redmond; title: Hope in children of men and Firefly/serenity: nihilism, waste and the dialectics of the sublime / Sean Cubitt; title: Biopolitics and the war on terror in World War Z and Monsters / Sherryl Vint; title: Dangerous aesthetics. Introduction / Leon Marvell; title: Narrative, aesthetics and cultural imperatives in recent science fiction films / Deborah Knight and George McKnight; title: Adventures in perception: endangering the spectator in science fiction cinema / Barry Keith Grant; title: Sleeping/waking: politicizing the sublime in science fiction film special effects / Andrew M. Butler; title: Tarkovsky's Solaris and the (im)possibility of a science fiction cinema / Leon Marvell; title: Spectacular space and the annihilation of time. Introduction / Sean Redmond; title: Subversive topologies: space, time and dystopia in the films of Gustavo Mosquera / Mariano Paz; title: Escape from the dialectic of enlightenment and disaster: authenticity, agency, and alien space / Alan Woolfolk; title: Science fiction: what's wrong? the sounds of danger versus hearing dangerously / Darrin Verhagen; title: Bodily extinctions and bodily becomings. Introduction / Leon Marvell; title: Robots, androids, aliens and others: the erotics and politics of science fiction film / Anne Cranny-Francis; title: The persistence of the robot /J. P. Telotte; title: A danger to self and others: the cinema of David Cronenberg / Scott Wilson.