Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination
暫譯: 科技驚悚小說：電影與美國想像力
Murray, Soraya
- 出版商: Summit Valley Press
- 出版日期: 2026-02-03
- 售價: $1,500
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,425
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 296
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 026205101X
- ISBN-13: 9780262051019
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科技科普 Technology
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商品描述
What technothrillers--popular films that center advanced technology--can tell us about ourselves, and how they ignite our imagination in technologically supercharged times. In Technothriller, Soraya Murray reveals how popular American films after the 1960s, in which technology assumes a central role--mainly biotech, military, and computational--channel our cultural anxieties, dreams, and convictions about the power and meaning of advanced technology. Along with iconic adaptations from technothriller novels by Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton, such as The Hunt for Red October and The Andromeda Strain, Murray considers Westworld, Rollerball, Demon Seed, WarGames, Ex Machina, Tenet, M3GAN, and The Creator, as well as the Terminator and Mission: Impossible franchises. Through these films and others, she traces deeply embedded popular beliefs about technology and innovation--and then asks what this tells us about the mechanics of power within our technological lives. Exploring how popular culture negotiates political and cultural attitudes toward innovation and difference, her work finds in technothrillers a new way of thinking about the troubled, sometimes catastrophic relationships between humans and their inventions.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
科技驚悚片——以先進科技為中心的熱門電影——能告訴我們關於我們自己的什麼，以及它們如何在科技高度發展的時代激發我們的想像力。
在科技驚悚片中，Soraya Murray揭示了1960年代以後的美國熱門電影中，科技（主要是生物科技、軍事科技和計算科技）如何扮演核心角色，並反映出我們對先進科技的文化焦慮、夢想和信念。除了Tom Clancy和Michael Crichton的科技驚悚小說改編的經典作品，如紅色十月的獵殺和安德羅梅達效應，Murray還考慮了西部世界、滾球、惡魔種子、戰爭遊戲、機械公敵、信條、M3GAN和創造者，以及終結者和不可能的任務系列。通過這些電影及其他作品，她追溯了對科技和創新的深層流行信念，並詢問這告訴我們關於科技生活中權力運作的什麼。探索流行文化如何協商對創新和差異的政治及文化態度，她的研究在科技驚悚片中找到了一種新的思考方式，來看待人類與其發明之間複雜且有時災難性的關係。作者簡介
Soraya Murray teaches in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
索拉雅·穆雷（Soraya Murray）在加州大學聖克魯斯分校的電影與數位媒體系所任教。她是《在電子遊戲中：種族、性別與空間的視覺政治》（On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space）的作者。
