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Charting new territory in filmmaking technologies and Steven Spielberg’s oeuvre, Minority Report (2002) portrays a dystopian near-future that comments on our increasingly science-fictional world and pays homage to the history of SF cinema. In this comprehensive monograph, D. Harlan Wilson recounts the film's inception, production, reception, and afterlife since its release in 2002 while depicting it as a symptom of contemporary media pathology, post-9/11 paranoia, consumer-capitalist aggression, religious mania, and above all, the screen culture that has come to define the human condition. At the same time, Wilson explores the many self-reflexive flourishes that render the movie a commentary on Spielberg’s style and the precession of the SF genre.

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Brilliantly contextualised, superbly illustrated, D. Harlan Wilson's immensely rich analysis of Minority Report takes us on an impressionable journey through the film's watery allusions, controlling visions, tactile surfaces, and broken horizons. The film screams newly into view in Wilson's haptic, gloved hands. Sean Redmond, author of Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age In this erudite and theoretically sophisticated analysis, D. Harlan Wilson contextualizes Minority Report in the history of science fiction and communications technology with an engaging, precise, at times poetical style and a sensitivity to cultural and political dimensions that draws on established as well as up-to-date scholarship. Integrating a range of approaches and clearly set-out arguments, Wilson demonstrates a convincing case for the complexity of what he calls Spielberg's 'intellectual blockbuster. NIGEL MORRIS, author of The Cinema of Spielberg: Empire of Light Everything that there is to know about one of Spielberg's more underrated films can be found in D. Harlan Wilson's comprehensive work on Minority Report. The highly detailed examination and analysis of literally all aspects of the film- ranging from scripting, design, style, themes, context, influences and much more- makes you appreciate the remarkable detail and skill that was assembled and utilized for the film. JAMES MAIRATA, author of Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth

Brilliantly contextualised, superbly illustrated, D. Harlan Wilson's immensely rich analysis of Minority Report takes us on an impressionable journey through the film's watery allusions, controlling visions, tactile surfaces, and broken horizons. The film screams newly into view in Wilson's haptic, gloved hands. Sean Redmond, author of Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age In this erudite and theoretically sophisticated analysis, D. Harlan Wilson contextualizes Minority Report in the history of science fiction and communications technology with an engaging, precise, at times poetical style and a sensitivity to cultural and political dimensions that draws on established as well as up-to-date scholarship. Integrating a range of approaches and clearly set-out arguments, Wilson demonstrates a convincing case for the complexity of what he calls Spielberg's 'intellectual blockbuster. NIGEL MORRIS, author of The Cinema of Spielberg: Empire of Light Everything that there is to know about one of Spielberg's more underrated films can be found in D. Harlan Wilson's comprehensive work on Minority Report. The highly detailed examination and analysis of literally all aspects of the film- ranging from scripting, design, style, themes, context, influences and much more- makes you appreciate the remarkable detail and skill that was assembled and utilized for the film. JAMES MAIRATA, author of Steven Spielberg's Style by Stealth

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D. Harlan Wilson is Professor of English at Wright State University–Lake Campus. He is the author of over 30 works of fiction and nonfiction as well as hundreds of stories, essays, plays, and reviews in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction (2009), They Live (Cultographies series, 2015) and J.G. Ballard (Modern Masters of Science Fiction, 2017), which was a finalist for the 2018 Locus Award in the Best Nonfiction Category.

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