Industrial society and the science fiction blockbuster : social critique in films of Lucas, Scott and Cameron /

"As challengers of the status quo's technological underpinnings, Luke Skywalker, Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor echo the once-popular social criticism of philosopher Herbert Marcuse speaking directly to the concerns of people living in a technologically complex society. The films of Lucas,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Decker, Mark T. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
Subjects:	Science fiction films > History and criticism. Motion pictures > Social aspects > History and criticism. Motion pictures > Social aspects. Science fiction films. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Big-budget science fiction film and profitable social critique
Creating cleverly subversive science fiction universes
George Lucas battles the empire of unfreedom in American graffiti and the Star Wars films
Ridley Scott takes on apparently evil corporations in Alien, Blade runner, and Prometheus
James Cameron reforms the company man in Terminator and T2
Cameron's questioners: two-dimensional protagonists in Aliens, Titanic, and Avatar
Afterword: the cultural half-life of subversive blockbusters.