From Alien to The Matrix

Reading Science Fiction Film

• Author(s): Roz Kaveney,
• Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Company Limited
• Pages: 217
• ISBN_10: 0755604806
  ISBN_13: 9780755604807
  
• Language: en

Description:... Waking into dreams: competence cascades, thick texts and the universalization of the geek aesthetic -- Director as parodist: Paul Verhoeven's Starship troopers -- Comedy 1: Galaxy quest -- The decline and fall of the alien invasion -- Comedy 2: Small soldiers and the joke of the robot -- Who are you? Cognitive dissonance and lots of really big guns -- The mirrored gaze: James Cameron's and Kathryn Bigelow's Strange days -- Creation as product: the paradox of franchises -- A franchise case study: Alien and its sequels -- Index of films -- Index.