Dystopia and dispossession in the Hollywood science fiction film, 1979-2017 : the aesthetics of enclosure /
Offering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017 (from Ridley Scott's Alien to Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049), Dystopia and Dispossessionin the Hollywood Science Fiction Film argues that the trajectory of Hollywood's dystopianism in that period is inextri...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
77. |
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| Summary: | Offering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017 (from Ridley Scott's Alien to Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049), Dystopia and Dispossessionin the Hollywood Science Fiction Film argues that the trajectory of Hollywood's dystopianism in that period is inextricable from the phenomenon of the 'new enclosures,' the new dispossessions and privatizations sweeping across the United States since the 1970s. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 202 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 1802077618 9781802077612 |