| Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age Contributor(s): Redmond, Sean (Author) |
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ISBN: 1780761872 ISBN-13: 9781780761879 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy - Performing Arts | Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| Series: International Library of the Moving Image |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.57 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fiction films and television programmes. He argues that they reveal the profound effects the digital age has had on our social lives. Through narratives that feature the 'post-human', genetic engineering and cloning, surveillance and data mining, space and time travel, artificial intelligence, online dating cultures and visions of catastrophe, they portray a world in which the material, and the stable, are being lost to the ever-more volatile and ephemeral idea of 'liquid space'. Redmond examines a wide selection of popular films and TV series such as Gravity, Under the Skin, The Lobster, Children of Men and Doctor Who, to locate how traditional values are being erased in favour of a new liquid modernity. Drawing on an eclectic range of approaches from phenomenology to critical race theory, and from close textual analysis to the revelations of eye-tracking technology, this book is an illuminating account of the digital age through the lens of science fiction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Redmond, Sean: - Sean Redmond is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is editor of the journal Celebrity Studies, author of The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (2013), and Celebrity and the Media (2013). |
