Bringing critical attention to a particular set of science fiction and fantasy films--Larry and Andy Wachowski's The Matrix, George Lucas' Star Wars saga, and Joss Whedon's Avengers--this book utilizes a wide-ranging set of critical tools to illuminate their political ideologies, while also examining any resistant and complicating turns or byways the films may provide. What they all have in common ideologically is that they--or at least the genres they belong to--tend to be regarded as belonging to politically conservative frames of sociocultural reference. With the Star Wars saga, however, this idea is shown to be superficial and weak.…mehr
Bringing critical attention to a particular set of science fiction and fantasy films--Larry and Andy Wachowski's The Matrix, George Lucas' Star Wars saga, and Joss Whedon's Avengers--this book utilizes a wide-ranging set of critical tools to illuminate their political ideologies, while also examining any resistant and complicating turns or byways the films may provide. What they all have in common ideologically is that they--or at least the genres they belong to--tend to be regarded as belonging to politically conservative frames of sociocultural reference. With the Star Wars saga, however, this idea is shown to be superficial and weak.
John C. McDowell is the director of research at the University of Divinity, and is based in Melbourne, Australia. He is associate editor and book review editor for Colloquium.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments deleteix Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Why So Serious? 1. The Super Body-Politic: Nationally Assembling Joss Whedon's Exceptional The Avengers 2. "He was deceived by a lie": Tragedy and the Dark Plague of the Politics of Fear in George Lucas' Star Wars 3. Dystopian Polyvalence: Emancipating the Mediated Life from The Matrix Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments deleteix Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Why So Serious? 1. The Super Body-Politic: Nationally Assembling Joss Whedon's Exceptional The Avengers 2. "He was deceived by a lie": Tragedy and the Dark Plague of the Politics of Fear in George Lucas' Star Wars 3. Dystopian Polyvalence: Emancipating the Mediated Life from The Matrix Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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