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McLuhan’s Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan’s Thought

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	McLuhan’s Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan’s Thought/ by Artur Skweres.
Author:	Skweres, Artur.
Description:	XXVI, 110 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Motion pictures and television. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04104-5
ISBN:	9783030041045

McLuhan’s Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan’s Thought
Skweres, Artur.

McLuhan’s Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan’s Thought[electronic resource] /by Artur Skweres. - 1st ed. 2019. - XXVI, 110 p.online resource. - Issues in Literature and Culture,2365-967X. - Issues in Literature and Culture,.

Clothes Make the Man – The Relation Between the Sensual and the Sexual in Blade Runner (1982) -- Star Wars as an Aesthetic Melting Pot -- Horror vacui and the Critique of Visual Society in Alien and Terminator Films -- The Digital Natives and the Implosion of Humanity in The Matrix and Avatar.

This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction films, treating them as visual metaphors or probes into the new reality dominated by electronic media: - it considers the relations between the senses and sensuality in Blade Runner, the visually-tactile character of the film, and the status of replicants as humanity’s new clothes; - it analyzes the mixture of Eastern and Western aesthetics in Star Wars, analyzing Darth Vader as a combination of the literate and the tribal mindset; - it discusses the failure of visual society presented in the Terminator and Alien franchises, the rekindling of horror vacui, tribalism, and the desire to obliterate the past as a result of the simultaneity of the acoustic space; - finally, the book discusses the Matrix trilogy and Avatar as being deeply related in terms of the growing importance of tactility, easternization, tribalization, as well as connectivity and the implosion of human civilization.

ISBN: 9783030041045

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-04104-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

839765
Motion pictures and television.

LC Class. No.: PN1992.63

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4

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