Body Soul And Cyberspace In Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
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Body Soul And Cyberspace In Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
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Author : S. Magerstädt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-25
Body Soul And Cyberspace In Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema written by S. Magerstädt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Art categories.
Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema answers questions about body and soul, virtuality, and spirituality in the digital age by linking cinematic themes with religious, philosophical and ethical concepts.
Body Soul And Cyberspace In Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
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Author : S. Magerstädt
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Body Soul And Cyberspace In Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema written by S. Magerstädt and has been published by Palgrave Pivot this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Art categories.
Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema answers questions about body and soul, virtuality, and spirituality in the digital age by linking cinematic themes with religious, philosophical and ethical concepts.
Science Fiction Cinema
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Author : Geoff King
language : en
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Release Date : 2000
Science Fiction Cinema written by Geoff King and has been published by Wallflower Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Science fiction films categories.
This book charts the dimensions of one of the most popular genres in the cinema. From lurid comic-book blockbusters to dark dystopian visions, science fiction is seen as both a powerful cultural barometer of our times and the product of particular industrial and commercial frameworks. The authors outline the major themes of the genre, from representations of the mad scientist and computer hacker to the relationship between science fiction and postmodernism, exploring issues such as the meaning of special effects and the influence of science fiction cinema on the entertainment media of the digital age. Over one hundred films are discussed and the book concludes with an extensive case study of Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace.
Ancient Greece And Rome In Modern Science Fiction
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Author : Ross Clare
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-24
Ancient Greece And Rome In Modern Science Fiction written by Ross Clare and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-24 with Art categories.
Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction introduces and analyses the reception of classical antiquity in contemporary science fiction. By using up-to-date methods from classical reception theory, science-fiction analysis and fictional-world studies, the book will help furnish the reader’s understanding of the ways in which the literature, culture, history and mythology of ancient Greece and Rome are appropriated and represented across multiple media platforms in the science-fiction genre today. The book will therefore serve as an entry point into several areas of study: the reception of classics in popular culture, antiquity in modern media, the uses of the ancient world in science-fiction, and broader science-fiction criticism. The chapters – structured by medium – principally offer a roughly chronological overview of that medium and its treatment of ancient history, mythology, literature and culture. An abundance of case studies from literature, film and television and videogames including Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Fallout: New Vegas, the Mass Effect franchise and Assassin’s Creed show how classical antiquity is reused, encountered, re-encountered by creators and consumers of the present – how we bounce off it, and it bounces off us, and how this reciprocation creates new visions of Greece and of Rome.
Digital Space And Embodiment In Contemporary Cinema
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Author : Jennifer Kirby
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Digital Space And Embodiment In Contemporary Cinema written by Jennifer Kirby and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Social Science categories.
Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema examines how contemporary cinema has represented and engaged with the experience of simultaneously inhabiting digital and material spaces (i.e. "composite spaces") in the context of the growing ubiquitousness of digital media and culture. Bringing together a range of key cinematic texts, the book examines how these films represent "composite space" by depicting—often subtly and without explicit reference to technology—what it feels like to live in a world of ubiquitous digital media. The book explores composite spaces through the striking use of elements like colour, symbolic graphics, and music and covers topics like: music as mediator between levels of experience/perception in visionary films such as Sucker Punch (2011) and Spring Breakers (2012); digital colour as an interface in films including Under the Skin (2013); the integration of digital graphical elements drawn from game spaces into material spaces in films such as Scott Pilgrim vs The World (2010) and Nerve (2016); and films that take place on a computer screen including 2020’s widely discussed, Zoom-produced pandemic horror film Host. Through the close analysis of these films, the book offers fresh perspectives on conceptual issues of embodiment, digital agency, and subjectivity. This book is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in the fields of film studies, digital aesthetics and film theory, digital culture, and digital media.
Dystopian States Of America
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Author : Matthew B. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Dystopian States Of America written by Matthew B. Hill and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Social Science categories.
Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness. Dystopian States of America provides students and researchers with an illuminating resource for understanding the impact and relevance of dystopian and apocalyptic works in contemporary American culture. Through its wide survey of dystopian works in numerous forms and genres, the book encourages readers to connect with these works of fiction and understand how the catastrophically grim or disquieting worlds they portray offer insights into our own current situation. In addition to providing more than 150 encyclopedia articles on a large and representative sample of dystopian/apocalyptic narratives in fiction, film, television, and video games (including popular works that often escape critical inquiry), Dystopian States of America features a suite of critical essays on five themes-war, pandemics, totalitarianism, environmental calamity, and technological overreach-that serve as the foundation for most dystopian worlds of the imagination. These offerings complement one another, enabling readers to explore dystopian conceptions of America and the world from multiple perspectives and vantage points.
Spaces Mapped And Monstrous
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Author : Nick Jones
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-21
Spaces Mapped And Monstrous written by Nick Jones and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with Performing Arts categories.
Digital 3D has become a core feature of the twenty-first-century visual landscape. Yet 3D cinema is a contradictory media form: producing spaces that are highly regimented and exhaustively detailed, it simultaneously relies upon distortions of vision and space that are inherently strange. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema to offer a critical analysis of an inescapable part of contemporary culture. Considering 3D’s distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital systems, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts. He examines 3D’s relationship with computer interfaces, virtual reality, and digital networks as well as tracing its lineage to predigital models of visual organization. Jones emphasizes that 3D is not only a technology used in films but also a tool for producing, controlling, and distorting space within systems of surveillance, corporatization, and militarization. The book features detailed analysis of a wide range of films—including Avatar (2009), Goodbye to Language (2014), Love (2015), and Clash of the Titans (2010)—demonstrating that 3D is not merely an augmentation of 2D cinema but that it has its own unique properties. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous brings together media archaeology, digital theory, and textual analysis to provide a new account of the importance of 3D to visual culture today.
Alien Zone
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Author : Annette Kuhn
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1990-05-17
Alien Zone written by Annette Kuhn and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-05-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of essays, bringing science fiction cinema into the ambit of film and cultural theory.
Experiencing Multiple Realities
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Author : Marius Ion Benţa
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-15
Experiencing Multiple Realities written by Marius Ion Benţa and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of ‘finite provinces of meaning’, as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz. A critical introduction to Schutz’s sociology of multiple realities as well as a sympathetic re-reading and reconstruction of his project, Experiencing Multiple Realities traces the genesis and implications of this concept in Schutz’s writings before presenting an analysis of various ways in which it can shed light on major sociological problems, such as social action, social time, social space, identity, or narrativity.
Internet Afterlife
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Author : Kevin O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-08-08
Internet Afterlife written by Kevin O'Neill and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-08 with Religion categories.
Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version? This technology-based look at the afterlife chronicles America's fascination with death and reveals how digital immortality may become a reality. The Internet has reinvented the paradigm of life and death: social media enables a discourse with loved ones long after their deaths, while gaming sites provide opportunities for multiple lives and life forms. In this thought-provoking work, author Kevin O'Neill examines America's concept of afterlife—as imagined in cyberspace—and considers how technologies designed to emulate immortality present serious challenges to our ideas about human identity and to our religious beliefs about heaven and hell. The first part of the work—covering the period between 1840 and 1860—addresses post-mortem photography, cemetery design, and spiritualism. The second section discusses Internet afterlife, including online memorials and cemeteries; social media legacy pages; and sites that curate passwords, bequests, and final requests. The work concludes with chapters on the transhumanist movement, the philosophical and religious debates about Internet immortality, and the study of technologies attempting to extend life long after the human form ceases.