David T. Fortin

Architecture and Science-Fiction Film

Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home

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Produktbeschreibung

The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'.

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Produktdetails

• Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 179mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781409407485
• ISBN-10: 1409407489
• Artikelnr.: 42354380

Autorenporträt

Dr David T. Fortin is an Assistant Professor at Montana State University School of Architecture, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Part 1 Science-Fiction, Architecture and Home: Defining science-fiction: Darko Suvin and the genre
The future and home
Postfuturism and shifting notions of home
Learning from Dick: architectural perspectives on SF. Part 2 Re-Visioning Home in Dick-Inspired Films: Killing home: Blade Runner's strange obsessions and omissions
Relinquishing home: identity through architectural 'otherness'
Resurrecting home: scattered boundaries and domesti-city in Minority Report
Becoming home: identities, insects, and the dirty dwelling dilemma. Part 3 Go Home - I'm Home - Becoming Home: Architecture and grammar in SF
Bibliography
Index.