From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film

EEn......Page 1
From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film......Page 2
Copyright Info......Page 6
TOC......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1. Waking into Dream - Competence Cascades, Thick Texts and the Universalization of the Greek Aesthetic......Page 9
2. Director as Parodist - Paul Verhoeven\'s Starship Troopers......Page 17
3. Comedy 1 - Galaxy Quest......Page 29
4. The Decline and Fall of the Alien Invasion......Page 44
5. Comedy 2 - Small Soldiers and the Joke of the Robot......Page 59
6. Who Are You? Cognitive Dissonance and Lots of Really Big Guns......Page 69
7. The Mirrored Gaze - James Cameron\'s and Kathryn Bigelow\'s Strange Days......Page 89
8. Creation as Product - The Paradox of Franchises......Page 115
A Franchise Case Study - Alien and its sequels......Page 134
Alien - \'We live, as we dream--alone.\'......Page 135
Aliens - \'Get away from her--you bitch.\'......Page 152
Alien3 - \'We set out to make a release date and not to make a movie.\'--Jon Landau......Page 178
Alien Resurrection - \'At least there\'s part of you that\'s human.\'......Page 191
Index......Page 209
Index of Films......Page 207