Alien zone II

Verso

1999

308 p.

Filmography: p. [276]-284. Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index

9781859842591

'Sensuous elaboration': reason and the visible in the science-fiction film' / Barry Keith Grant. -- Diegetic or digital?: the convergence of science-fiction literature and science-fiction film in hypermedia / Brooks Landon. -- Internet fandom and the continuing narratives of Star Wars, Blade Runner and Alien / Will Brooker. -- Race, space and class: the politics of cityscapes in science-fiction films / David Desser. -- Future noir: contemporary representations of visionary cities / Janet Staiger. -- Cities on the edge of time: the urban science-fiction film / Vivian Sobchack. -- Action bodies in futurist spaces: bodybuilder stardom as special efect / Linda Mizejewski. -- Becoming the monster's mother: morphologies of identity in the Alien series / Catherine Constable. -- Psycho-cybernetics in films of the 1990s / Claudia Springer. -- Body snatching: science fiction's photographic trace / Garrett Stewart. -- The artificial infinite: on special effects and the sublime / Scott Bukatman

Alien Zone II presents some of the exciting new voices in the current debates. It continues to pursue the critical and theoretical issues opened up in the earlier book and energetically explores fresh territory

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