Alien Zone : Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

摘要: Perhaps because of its very popularity and cult status, science fiction in all forms has long suffered from critical neglect. This is especially true the film - a genre as old cinema itself which rarely received serious attention devoted to such genres western, noir recently, under aegis feminist theory, so-called ""woman's film."" Alien Zone aims bring fully into ambit cultural theory general particular. The essays this book some newly written, others gathered scattered sources look at ways contemporary films draw on, rework, transform established themes conventions genre: mise-en-scene future worlds; myth masculine mastery nature; power authority their relation technology. material ordered contextualized by editor with view exploring how been approached critically theoretically commentators on mirror society, bearing or producing ideology; caught up an intertext media productions, expressing unconscious desires. Contributors include Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Thomas B. Byers, Barbara Creed, Anne Cranny-Francis, Daniel Dervin, H. Bruce Franklin, James Kavanagh, Douglas Kelner, Steve Neale, Judith Newton, Constance Penley, Hugh Ruppersberg, Michael Ryan, Vivian Sobchack, Stern, J.P. Telotte, Paul Virilio.