Evdokia Stefanopoulou

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood

A Social Semiotics of Bodies and Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

"Delineates the contemporary American science fiction film using a social semiotics approach"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781501380204
• ISBN-10: 1501380206
• Artikelnr.: 70103753

Autorenporträt

Evdokia Stefanopoulou teaches in the MA program "Film and Television Studies" at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interest includes popular cinema, genre theory, and semiotics.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction: History, theory, science fiction
(SF) film Part I: Theory/History 1. Uncovering the deep and surface
structures of SF film 2. Conglomerate Hollywood, technology and filmmakers
Part II: The Cycles: SF Bodies/SF Worlds SF Bodies 3. The techno-humans
cycle. The exceptional and the ordinary technological body 4. The alien
encounters cycle. The millennial ambiguity of the Other 5. The creatures
cycle. The organic, the mechanic and the in-between SF Worlds 6. The
dystopia/utopia cycle. Surviving ecopolitical disasters 7. The zones cycle.
The enclosed spatiotemporalities of global capitalism 8. The fantastic
worlds cycle. The spectacular technoscientific Empire Epilogue Notes
Bibliography Index