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OverviewContemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millennium, offering a ground-breaking investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern era. Placing one of the most popular and culturally resonant American film genres broadly within its rich social, historical, industrial, and political context, the book interrogates some of the defining critical debates of the era via an in-depth analysis of a range of important films. An international team of authors draw on case studies from across the science fiction genre to examine what these films can tell us about the time period, how the films themselves connect to the social and political context, how the fears and anxieties they portray resonate beyond the screen, and how the genre responds to the shifting coordinates of the Hollywood film industry. Offering new insights and perspectives on the cinematic science fiction genre, this volume will appeal primarily to scholars and students of film, television, cultural and media studies, as well as anyone interested in science fiction and speculative film. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Terence McSweeney , Stuart JoyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.467kg ISBN: 9781032039640ISBN 10: 1032039647 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 22 February 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction: The Fears and Fantasies of Science Fiction Film: Genre as Cultural Artefact Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy 1. A Tale as Old as Time: Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Christine Muller 2. 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 3. Precarious Lives, Human Rights, and 'the sense of today': The Continuing Resonance and Relevance of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006) Terence McSweeney 4. 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 5. Time Travel, Trauma, and the Futility of Revenge in Looper (2012) Stuart Joy 6. Science Fiction Cinema between Arthouse and Blockbuster: From Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) Steffen Hantke 7. Twenty-first-Century Star Wars: Profiles in (Female) Courage Stacey Peebles 8. Rationality, emotionality, and geopolitics in Arrival (2016): From structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to ""quality"" status Geoff King 9. 'The World Is Built on A Wall': Deconstructing Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Will Brooker 10. Speculative Anger and Collective Economic Strength in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018) Paul Petrovic 11. Coping with the Deconstruction of American Identity: Hybridization and Self-destruction in Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) Andrew Schopp 12. Wakanda Forever? On Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018) Gerry Canavan"ReviewsContemporary American Science Fiction Film is an outstanding collection of essays on the power and provocation of those future orientated films that nonetheless conjure up the maelstrom of what it is like to dream and despair in the first two decades of the new millennium. Covering blockbuster, transmedia and independent science fiction film, the collection examines the long and refracted lens of the present through its concern with the geopolitical, the technological, the deadly traumatic, and the precariat economic. It also senses science fiction and the way it troubles selfhood and identity, so the intimate and the personal are woven into the collection's articulations. With standout chapters on Arrival, Children of Men, Annihilation, and Black Panther, amongst others, Contemporary American Science Fiction Film is a profoundly important text for all time, or for as long as this world has left to live... Professor Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia Author InformationTerence McSweeney is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University and the author of The 'War on Terror' and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second (2014), Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018), and Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon (2021). Stuart Joy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Southampton Solent University and the author of The Traumatic Screen: The Films of Christopher Nolan (2020), co-editor of, and contributor to, The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible (2015), and Through the Black Mirror: Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age (2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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