Science fiction film predicting the impossible in the age of neoliberalism /

By presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre's important critical role in a post-political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajectories beyond th...

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author:	Sorensen, Eli Park (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021] Ã2021
Subjects:	Science fiction films > Political aspects. Politics in motion pictures. Science fiction films > Social aspects. Neoliberalism. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION Science Fiction Film in the Age of Neoliberalism
CHAPTER 1 Between Friends and Enemies: Ridley Scott's Alien
CHAPTER 2 Monopolizing the Future: Steven Spielberg's Minority Report and Schmitt's Exception
CHAPTER 3 The Anomalous World: Elysium and the Invention of the Med-Bay Machine
CHAPTER 4 Blade Runner and the Right to Life
CHAPTER 5 Terminating the State of Exception: Oblivion and the Problem of Exceptional Being
CHAPTER 6 Escaping the Production of Bare Life: Blade Runner 2049 and the Miracle of Birth
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Science fiction film predicting the impossible in the age of neoliberalism /

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