Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction

Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema (Probability; 36)
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This is especially true of the science fiction filmâ€”a genre as old as cinema itselfâ€”which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called â€œwomanâ€™s film.â€ Alien Zone aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular.

The essays in this bookâ€”some newly written, others gathered from scattered sourcesâ€”look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre: the mise-en-scene of future worlds; the myth of masculine mastery of nature; power and authority and their relation to technology. This material is ordered and contextualized by the editor with a view to exploring how science fiction cinema has been approached critically and theoretically by commentators on the genre: as a mirror of society, as bearing or producing ideology; as caught up in an intertext of media productions, or as expressing unconscious desires.

Contributors include Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Thomas B. Byers, Barbara Creed, Anne Cranny-Francis, Daniel Dervin, H. Bruce Franklin, James H. Kavanagh, Douglas Kelner, Steve Neale, Judith Newton, Constance Penley, Hugh Ruppersberg, Michael Ryan, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Stern, J. P. Telotte, and Paul Virilio.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1990-05-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780860919933

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1990-05-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780860919933

Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema (Probability; 36)

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