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...
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Author: Eli Park Sorensen
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Language: English
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Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism by Sorensen, Eli Park

Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism

$476.50

Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism

$476.50
Author: Eli Park Sorensen
Format: Paperback
Language: English

    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 the horizon of the present.

    Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt's thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s. Drawing on Schmitt's notion of the state of exception and its basis in the unpredictability of tomorrow, it looks at the political ramifications when the moment of the future finally arrives.

    With analysis of films such as Alien, Blade Runner and Minority Report, Eli Park Sorensen explores how power reconfigures itself to ensure the survival of the state, what 'society' means, who 'we, the people' are, and whether it will still be possible to retain a sphere of liberal, individual rights after the transformative event of the future.



    Author: Eli Park Sorensen
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Published: 05/22/2023
    Pages: 168
    Binding Type: Paperback
    Weight: 0.54lbs
    Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d
    ISBN: 9781474481854

    About the Author

    Dr Eli Park Sorensen is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Chinese University of Hong Kong.


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