Jacking in to the Matrix franchise : cultural reception and interpretation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kapell, Matthew, Doty, William G., 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum, 2004.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The deeper we go, the more complex and sophisticated the franchise seems, and the dizzier we feel / William G. Doty
  • Welcome to the sexual spectacle: the female heroes in the franchise / Martina Lipp
  • Is Neo white? reading race, watching the trilogy / C. Richard King and David Leonard
  • Religion, community, and revitalization: why cinematic myth resonates / Richard R. Jones
  • Story, product, franchise: images of postmodern cinema / Bruce Isaacs and Theodore Louis Trost
  • Fascist redemption or democratic hope? / John Shelton Lawrence
  • Stopping bullets: constructions of bliss and problems of violence / Frances Flannery-Dailey and Rachel L. Wagner
  • The déjà vu glitch in the Matrix trilogy / Michael Sexson
  • Visions of hope, freedom of choice, and the alleviation of social misery: a pragmatic reading of the Matrix franchise / Stephanie J. Wilhelm and Matthew Kapell
  • Biomorph: the posthuman thing / Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
  • Strange volutions: the Matrix franchise as a posthuman memento mori / Tim Mizelle and Elizabeth Baker
  • Try the blue pill: what's wrong with life in a simulation? / Russell Blackford
  • At the edge of the world, again / Matthew Kapell.