Over Excessive Ambition As Reflected In Three Science Fiction Novels Frankenstein Solaris And Infernal Devices
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Over Excessive Ambition As Reflected In Three Science Fiction Novels Frankenstein Solaris And Infernal Devices
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Author : KHULOD H. HUSAIN
language : en
Publisher: KY Publications
Release Date : 2021-08-05
Over Excessive Ambition As Reflected In Three Science Fiction Novels Frankenstein Solaris And Infernal Devices written by KHULOD H. HUSAIN and has been published by KY Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Fiction categories.
This book attempts to explore the emergence of science fiction as a genre and its development into steampunk as a subgenre of science fiction in selected science fiction novels: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1823), Stanislaw Lem's Solaris (1970) and K. W. Jeter's Infernal Devices (1987). This research shows that the scientists in these novels drag themselves into darkness. Victor, the protagonists of Frankenstein, is an ambition scientist who wants to conquer death but tragically loses his family during this endeavor. Kelvin, the hero of Solaris, is psychologically devastated when he struggles to understand how Solaris ocean creates a simulation of people. The hero of the third novel, George Dewar's father, a mad scientist and inventor, creates a double of his own son as a robot tries to destroy the earth. The main argument of this research is that all these novels set in different eras draw on science fiction to criticize and question man's greedy and unrestricted desire for scientific discovery to the extent that they want to conquer the universe and play the role of God. The study will ask the following questions: How do the ambitious scientists in the novels drag themselves into madness? And how does the scientific desire turn into a crave for transcendence bringing about their damnation? What do these scientific explorations and inventions reveal about human nature? Does steampunk bring evolution to the future as a sub-genre of science fiction?
The Film Book
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Author : Ronald Bergan
language : en
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Release Date : 2021
The Film Book written by Ronald Bergan and has been published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies.
Icons Of Horror And The Supernatural
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Author : S. T. Joshi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2006-12-30
Icons Of Horror And The Supernatural written by S. T. Joshi 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 2006-12-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Horror and the supernatural have fascinated people for centuries, and many of the most central figures appear over and over again. These figures have gained iconic status and continue to hold sway over popular culture and the modern imagination. This book offers extended entries on 24 of the most enduring and significant figures of horror and the supernatural, including The Sea Creature, The Witch, The Alien, The Vampire, The Werewolf, The Sorcerer, The Ghost, The Siren, The Mummy, The Devil, and The Zombie. Each entry is written by a leading authority on the subject and discusses the topic's essential features and lasting influence, from the classical epics of Homer to the novels of Stephen King. Entries cite sources for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Entries include illustrations, sidebars of interesting information, and excerpts from key texts. Horror and the supernatural have fascinated people for centuries, with many of the most central figures appearing over and over again across time and cultures. These figures have starred in the world's most widely read literary works, most popular films, and most captivating television series. Because of their popularity and influence, they have attained iconic status and a special place in the popular imagination. This book overviews 24 of the most significant icons of horror and the supernatural.
The Solaris Effect
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Author : Steven Dillon
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Solaris Effect written by Steven Dillon and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's π represent the apparent oppositions between nature and culture, wild and tame? Steven Dillon's intriguing new volume surveys American cinema from 1990 to 2002 with substantial descriptions of sixty films, emphasizing small-budget independent American film. Directors studied include Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, Todd Haynes, Harmony Korine, and Gus Van Sant, as well as more canonical figures like Martin Scorcese, Robert Altman, David Lynch, and Steven Spielberg. The book takes its title and inspiration from Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, a science fiction ghost story that relentlessly explores the relationship between the powers of nature and art. The author argues that American film has the best chance of aesthetic success when it acknowledges that a film is actually a film. The best American movies tell an endless ghost story, as they perform the agonizing nearness and distance of the cinematic image. This groundbreaking commentary examines the rarely seen bridge between select American film directors and their typically more adventurous European counterparts. Filmmakers such as Lynch and Soderbergh are cross-cut together with Tarkovsky and the great French director, Jean-Luc Godard, in order to test the limits and possibilities of American film. Both enthusiastically cinephilic and fiercely critical, this book puts a decade of U.S. film in its global place, as part of an ongoing conversation on nature and art.
The Weird And The Eerie
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Author : Mark Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
Release Date : 2016-12-15
The Weird And The Eerie written by Mark Fisher and has been published by Duncan Baird Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Social Science categories.
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The Weird and the Eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling. Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie. These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan.
Time Within Time
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Author : Andrei Tarkovsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-08
Time Within Time written by Andrei Tarkovsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-08 with Performing Arts categories.
"Tarkovsky for me is the greatest," wrote Ingmar Bergman. Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films, but all are celebrated for its striking visual images, quietly patient dramatic structures, and visionary symbolism. Time within Time is both a diary and a notebook, maintained by Tarkovsky from 1970 until his death. Intense and intimate, it offers reflections on Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, and others. He writes movingly of his family, especially his father, Arseniy Tarkovsky, whose poems appear in his films. He records haunting dreams in detail and speaks of the state of society and the future of art, noting significant world events and purely personal dramas along with fascinating accounts of his own filmmaking. Rounding out this volume are Tarkovsky's plans and notes for his stage version of Hamlet; a detailed proposal for a film adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot; and a glimpse of the more public Tarkovsky answering questions put to him by interviewers.
A Short History Of Film Third Edition
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Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-30
A Short History Of Film Third Edition written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with Art categories.
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
The Contemporary British Novel
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Author : Philip Tew
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2007-06-26
The Contemporary British Novel written by Philip Tew and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Second edition of this guide for students studying contemporary British writing - written by one of the key academics in the field of modern fiction studies.
Red Planets
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Author : Mark Bould
language : en
Publisher: Marxism and Culture
Release Date : 2009
Red Planets written by Mark Bould and has been published by Marxism and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
A unique account of the Chinese Revolution, seen through the eyes of American journalist Rayna Prohme.
Berserker
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Author : Fred Saberhagen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Berserker written by Fred Saberhagen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Large type books categories.
Presents a series of short science-fiction stories that tells of encounters between humans and the intelligent, self-aware death machines known as the Berserkers.