Binding: Paperback
Description: Recent films are increasingly using themes and conventions of science fiction such as dystopian societies catastrophic environmental disasters apocalyptic scenarios aliens monsters time travel teleportation and supernatural abilities to address cosmopolitan concerns such as human rights climate change economic precarity and mobility. This book identifies and analyses the new transnational turn towards cosmopolitanism in science fiction cinema since the beginning of the twenty - first century. The book considers a wide selection of examples including case studies of films such as Elysium In Time 2012, Andrew Niccol's The Host Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same and Cloud Atlas. It also questions the seeming cosmopolitanism of these narratives and exposes how they sometimes reproduce social hierarchies and exploitative practices. Dealing with diverse interdisciplinary concerns represented in cinema this book in the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series will be of interest to readers and scholars working in the fields of science fiction film and media studies cosmopolitanism border theory popular culture and cultural studies. It will also appeal to fans of science fiction cinema and literature.
Title: Science Fiction Cinema In The Twenty - First Century Transnational Futures Cosmopolitan Concerns
Author(s): Gomez - Munoz Pablo (Faculty Of Arts Universidad De Zaragoza Spain)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367759063
Pages: 182 Pages, 14 Halftones, Black And White; 14 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 12/27/2022
Series: Studies in Global Genre Fiction
Category: Film: Styles & Genres