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Alien zone : cultural theory and contemporary science fiction cinema / edited by Annette Kuhn.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Verso, 1990.Description: viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780860919933 (pbk.) :
  • 0860919935 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S26 A818 1990
Contents:
Introduction : cultural theory and science fiction cinema / Annette Kuhn -- Visions of the future in science fiction films from 1970 to 1982 / H. Bruce Franklin -- The alien messiah / Hugh Ruppersberg -- Commodity futures / Thomas B. Byers -- Technophobia / Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner -- Making culture into nature / Michael Stern -- Feminism, humanism and science in Alien / James H. Kavanagh -- Feminism and anxiety in Alien / Judith Newton -- Primal conditions and conventions : the genre of science fiction / Daniel Dervin -- The virginity of astronauts : sex and the science fiction film / Vivian Sobchack -- Time travel, primal scene and the critical dystopia / Constance Penley -- Alien and the monstrous-feminine / Barbara Creed. The doubles of fantasy and the space of desire / J.P. Telotte -- 'You've got to be fucking kidding!' : knowledge, belief and judgement in science fiction / Steve Neale -- Cataract surgery : cinema in the year 2000 / Paul Virilio -- Ramble city : postmodernism and Blade runner / Giuliana Bruno -- Who programs you? : the science fiction of the spectacle / Scott Bukatman -- Gynesis, postmodernism and the science fiction horror film / Barbara Creed -- Feminist futures : a generic study / Anne Cranny-Francis.
Summary: A collection of essays, bringing science fiction cinema into the ambit of film and cultural theory.
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A collection of essays, bringing science fiction cinema into the ambit of film and cultural theory.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231).

Introduction : cultural theory and science fiction cinema / Annette Kuhn -- Visions of the future in science fiction films from 1970 to 1982 / H. Bruce Franklin -- The alien messiah / Hugh Ruppersberg -- Commodity futures / Thomas B. Byers -- Technophobia / Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner -- Making culture into nature / Michael Stern -- Feminism, humanism and science in Alien / James H. Kavanagh -- Feminism and anxiety in Alien / Judith Newton -- Primal conditions and conventions : the genre of science fiction / Daniel Dervin -- The virginity of astronauts : sex and the science fiction film / Vivian Sobchack -- Time travel, primal scene and the critical dystopia / Constance Penley -- Alien and the monstrous-feminine / Barbara Creed. The doubles of fantasy and the space of desire / J.P. Telotte -- 'You've got to be fucking kidding!' : knowledge, belief and judgement in science fiction / Steve Neale -- Cataract surgery : cinema in the year 2000 / Paul Virilio -- Ramble city : postmodernism and Blade runner / Giuliana Bruno -- Who programs you? : the science fiction of the spectacle / Scott Bukatman -- Gynesis, postmodernism and the science fiction horror film / Barbara Creed -- Feminist futures : a generic study / Anne Cranny-Francis.

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