{"product_id":"alien-zone","title":"Alien Zone","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.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":56797298295128,"sku":"9780860919933","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/alien-zone","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}