On film /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2016.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Kane's son, Cain's daughter: Ridley Scott's Alien
- Making babies: James Cameron's Aliens
- Mourning sickness: David Fincher's Alien 3
- The monster's mother: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien resurrection
- Part 2. Film as philosophy: the priority of the particular
- Precrime, precognition and the pre-reflective cogito: Steven Spielberg's Minority report
- Part 3. The impersonation of personality: Brian de Palma's Mission: Impossible
- The burden of sex: John Woo's Mission: Impossible II
- An accelerated mutator: J.J. Abram's Mission: Impossible III
- Part 4. The legacy of Jason Bourne: Identity and the sinfulness of origins
- The enterprise, the Botany Bay and the Kobyashi Maru: rebooting Star Trek with Khan's wrath and Red matter
- The disavowal of animation: Brad Bird's Mission Impossible
- Ghost protocol
- Cinematic repetition and how to avoid it: Ridley Scott's Prometheus
- Films discussed in the book.