Alain Boillat

Cinema as a Worldbuilding Machine in the Digital Era (eBook, ePUB)

Essay on Multiverse Films and TV Series

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Produktbeschreibung

This essay examines the primacy of worldbuilding in the age of CGI, transmedia practices and "high concept" fiction by studying the principles that govern the creation of a multiverse in a wide range of film and TV productions. Emphasis is placed on Hollywood sci-fi movies and their on-screen representation of imaginary machines that mirror the film medium, following in the tradition of Philip K. Dick's writings and the cyberpunk culture. A typology of worlds is established, as well as a number of analytical tools for assessing the impact of the coexistence of two or more worlds on the narrative structure, the style (uses of color, editing practices), the generic affiliation (or hybridity), the seriality and the discourse produced by a given film (particularly in fictions linked to post-9/11 fantasies). Among the various titles examined, the reader is offered a detailed analysis of the Resident Evil film series, Total Recall and its remake, Dark City, the Matrix trilogy, Avatar, Source Code and other time-loop films, TRON and its sequel, Christopher Nolan's Tenet, and several TV shows - most notably HBO's Westworld, but also Sliders, Lost, Fringe and Counterpart.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780861969814
• Artikelnr.: 64100133

Autorenporträt

Alain Boillat is professor in the Film History and Aesthetics Department of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne. His research interests include fiction theory, narration, adaptation and serial practices in cinema and comics, the history of screenwriting practices, the interaction between voices and images in audiovisual media, the representation of technology on film, the science fiction genre, as well as gender and star studies. He is notably the author of Du bonimenteur à la voix-over [From the Film Lecturer to Voice-over, 2007], "Star Wars", un monde en expansion ["Star Wars", a Constantly Expanding World, 2014], and En cas de Malheur, de Simenon à Autant-Lara. Essai de génétique scénaristique [Love is My Profession, From Simenon to Autant-Lara. An Essay on Screenplay Genetics, 2020]. He is the coeditor of Dialogues avec le cinéma. Approches de l'oralité cinématographique [On Dialogue with Movies. Perspectives on Cinema's Oral Dimension, 2016], BD-US: les comics vus par l'Europe [BD-US: Comics as Seen From Europe, 2016], Case, strip, action! [Table, Strip, Action!, 2016], L'Adaptation. Des livres aux scénarios [Film Adaptation. From Books to Screenplays, 2018] and Loin des yeux le cinéma. De la téléphonie à Internet: zimaginaires médiatiques des telecommunications et de la surveillance [Far From the Eyesthe Movies. From Telephony to the Internet: Imaginary Media of Telecommunication and Surveillance, 2019]. In 2019, he edited a special issue of the online academic journal ReSFuturae, devoted to Francophone science fictions comics.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Worldbuilding in the Age of Digital (Trans)Media Entering the "Virtual" Era: Alice in the Land of New Technologies
Post-9/11 Alternate Realities
Effects of (Pseudo-)Complex Storytelling on Worldbuilding Chapter 2 Immersive Sci-fi Machines: Worlds, Genres and SerialityScience Fiction: A Typical World-Centered Genre
Total Recall, Total Immersion
Androids of the Far West: Film Genre as World
Lost in Fringe Worlds: Multiverse and Seriality Chapter 3 Film Diegesis and Multiverse Principles of Filmology as a Theoretical Framework for a World-Centered Conception of Movies
Departures Between Worlds
Types of Other Worlds
Distant Worlds
Artificial Worlds
Supernatural Worlds
Mental Worlds
Alternate (Story)Worlds
Parallel Worlds
Virtual Worlds
The Westworld Series: An Emblematic Case of Permeability Between Different Types of Worlds Chapter 4 Worldbuilding And Film Style On the Materiality of Images: Live-Action and Animation (The Congress)
Are Colors Diegetic?
Philip K. Dick's World-Editing Process
A Derailed Montage: Alain Resnais' Time/World-Machine
Principles of Assembly: Multiverse, Editing, and AlternationChapter 5. Cyberspace: The Simulated World of the "matrix"John and Neo: Signs of the Times
The Urban Simulacrum of Postmodern Cinema: Dark City
Simulacron-3: Cyberculture Worlds
The Computer System Experienced From the Inside: TRON and its "Legacy" Conclusion / Bibliography / Index of Films and TV Series Biography