The politics of big fantasy : the ideologies of Star Wars, The Matrix and The Avengers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McDowell, John C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Subjects:	Star Wars films > History and criticism. Matrix (Motion picture) Marvel's The Avengers (Motion picture : 2012) Fantasy in motion pictures. Myth in motion pictures. Motion pictures > Philosophy. Motion pictures > Political aspects.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Why so serious?
The super body-politic: nationally assembling Joss Whedon's exceptional The avengers
"He was deceived by a lie": tragedy and the dark plague of the politics of fear in George Lucas' Star wars
Dystopian polyvalence: emancipating the mediated life from The matrix.