The philosophy of science fiction film / edited by Steven M Sanders
Contributor(s): Steven Sanders
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BookSeries: The philosophy of popular culture. Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky ; c2008Description: viii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780813192604.DDC classification: 791.436 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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BardBerlinLibrary | 791.436 2008 (Browse shelf) | Available |
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.
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