| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The philosophy of science fiction film/ edited by Steven M. Sanders. |
| other author: |
Sanders, Steven, |
| Published: |
Lexington, Ky. :University Press of Kentucky, : c2008., |
| Description: |
viii, 232 p. ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
The philosophy of popular culture |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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 Fankenstein/ 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. |
| Subject: |
Science fiction films - History and criticism. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=209746An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0813172810 (electronic bk.) |