Science Fiction & Fantasy Films, Subject Matter in Film
Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
Technoscience in Contemporary American Film is an innovative analysis of images of science and technology from popular films of the 1980's and 1990's. It argues that films such as Twelve Monkeys, Lawnmower Man, and Strange Days explore the complex social, cultural, and economic intersections that lead to the generation of scientific knowledge, and the different ways that such knowledge emerges within the world.
Editorials
Booknews
Exploring the way social meaning and technology interact in a range of American film genres from the 1980s and 1990s, Wood (sociology, U. of Aberdeen) analyzes films such as , , , , , and . Wood looks at the way science and technology are problematized in the films, examining the depictions of the effects of human institutions on technology and the effect of technology on human institutions. The shifting meanings given to technological objects within individual films, in particular androids, are also considered. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 18, 2002
Publisher
Manchester ; Manchester University Press ; 2002.
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780719057731