Darker Cities Urban Dystopia and Science Fiction Cinema  

Oleh:

Milner, Andrew

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 7 no. 3 (Sep. 2004), page 259–279.
Topik: cinema; cultural materialism; dystopia; postmodernism; science fiction
Fulltext: International Journal of Cultural Studies-2004-Milner-259-79.pdf (179.57KB)

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This article makes use of Darko Suvin's theory of the novum and Raymond Williams's cultural materialism to analyse three urban-dystopia science fiction films: Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) and Alex Proyas's Dark City (1998). It argues for the central significance of utopia, dystopia and cinema to SF. It explores the themes of class and gender, the uses of intertextuality, and the representations of the human and the posthuman in these three films. Drawing on Jameson, Baudrillard and others, it argues that the first film exhibits a characteristically modern, the latter two different versions of a characteristically postmodern, 'structure of feeling'.

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