Contemporary American Science Fiction Film - 9781032039657

Introduction: The fears and fantasies of science fiction film : genre as cultural artefact / Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy -- A tale as old as time : Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial intelligence (2001) / Christine Muller -- Through the lens of 9/11 : reflections of Bush era politics and the post-9/11 milieu in Minority report (2002) and V for Vendetta (2006) / Fran Pheasant Kelly -- Precarious lives, human rights and "the sense of today" : the continuing resonance and relevance of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of men (2006) / Terence McSweeney -- Seeing and touching the bodies of others : evolving the male animal toward secular moral enlightenment in the Planet of the apes reboot franchise / Carol Donelan -- Time travel, trauma and the futility of revenge in Looper (2012) / Stuart Joy -- Science fiction cinema between arthouse and blockbuster : from Stanley Kubrick's 2001 to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) / Steffen Hantke -- 21st-century Star wars : profiles in (female) courage / Stacey Peebles -- Rationality, emotionality and geopolitics in Arrival (2016) : from structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to 'quality' status / Geoff King -- "The world is built on a wall" : deconstructing Blade runner 2049 (2017) / Will Brooker -- Speculative anger and collective economic strength in Boots Riley's Sorry to bother you (2018) / Paul Petrovic -- Coping with the deconstruction of American identity : hybridization and self-destruction in Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) / Andrew Schopp -- Wakanda forever? On Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018) / Gerry Canavan.

• | Author: Terence Mcsweeney, Stuart Joy
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 25, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 238 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1032039655
• | ISBN-13: 9781032039657