{"product_id":"alien-zone-annette-kuhn-9780860919933","title":"Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema","description":"This is especially true of the science fiction film--a genre as old as cinema itself--which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called \"woman's film.\" \u003ci\u003eAlien Zone\u003c\/i\u003e aims to bring science fiction cinema fully into the ambit of cultural theory in general and of film theory in particular. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays in this book--some newly written, others gathered from scattered sources--look at the ways in which contemporary science fiction films draw on, rework, and transform established themes and conventions of the genre: the mise-en-scene of future worlds; the myth of masculine mastery of nature; power and authority and their relation to technology. This material is ordered and contextualized by the editor with a view to exploring how science fiction cinema has been approached critically and theoretically by commentators on the genre: as a mirror of society, as bearing or producing ideology; as caught up in an intertext of media productions, or as expressing unconscious desires. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors include Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Thomas B. Byers, Barbara Creed, Anne Cranny-Francis, Daniel Dervin, H. Bruce Franklin, James H. Kavanagh, Douglas Kelner, Steve Neale, Judith Newton, Constance Penley, Hugh Ruppersberg, Michael Ryan, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Stern, J. P. Telotte, and Paul Virilio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annette Kuhn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0860919935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780860919933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.09w x 0.64d","brand":"Annette Kuhn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180468461823,"sku":"9780860919933","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6fe84fe-1c19-47e2-a862-4cabd7fa0588.jpg?v=1712898039","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alien-zone-annette-kuhn-9780860919933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}