The philosophy of science fiction film / edited by Steven M Sanders
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky ; c2008.
- viii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
- The philosophy of popular culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An introduction to the philosophy of science fiction film / Steven M. Sanders -- Enigmas of identity and agency -- What is it to be human? : Blade runner and Dark city / Deborah Knight and George McKnight -- Recalling the self : personal identity in Total recall / Shai Biderman -- Picturing paranoia : interpreting Invasion of the body snatchers / Steven M. Sanders -- The existential Frankenstein / Jennifer L. McMahon -- Extraterrestrial visitation, time travel, and artificial intelligence -- Technology and ethics in The day the earth stood still / Aeon J. Skoble -- Some paradoxes of time travel in The terminator and 12 monkeys / William J. Devlin -- 2001 : a philosophical odyssey / Kevin L. Stoehr -- Terminator-fear and the paradox of fiction / Jason Holt -- Brave newer world : science fiction futurism -- The dialectic of Enlightenment in Metropolis / Jerold J. Abrams -- Imagining the future, contemplating the past : the screen versions of 1984 / R. Barton Palmer -- Disenchantment and rebellion in Alphaville / Alan Woolfolk -- The matrix, the cave, and the cogito / Mark T. Conard.
9780813192604
791.436
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An introduction to the philosophy of science fiction film / Steven M. Sanders -- Enigmas of identity and agency -- What is it to be human? : Blade runner and Dark city / Deborah Knight and George McKnight -- Recalling the self : personal identity in Total recall / Shai Biderman -- Picturing paranoia : interpreting Invasion of the body snatchers / Steven M. Sanders -- The existential Frankenstein / Jennifer L. McMahon -- Extraterrestrial visitation, time travel, and artificial intelligence -- Technology and ethics in The day the earth stood still / Aeon J. Skoble -- Some paradoxes of time travel in The terminator and 12 monkeys / William J. Devlin -- 2001 : a philosophical odyssey / Kevin L. Stoehr -- Terminator-fear and the paradox of fiction / Jason Holt -- Brave newer world : science fiction futurism -- The dialectic of Enlightenment in Metropolis / Jerold J. Abrams -- Imagining the future, contemplating the past : the screen versions of 1984 / R. Barton Palmer -- Disenchantment and rebellion in Alphaville / Alan Woolfolk -- The matrix, the cave, and the cogito / Mark T. Conard.
9780813192604
791.436