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McLuhan's galaxies :

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3030041042

(Number (ISBN

3030041050

(Number (ISBN

9783030041045

(Number (ISBN

9783030041052

Erroneous ISBN

3030041034

Erroneous ISBN

9783030041038

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McLuhan's galaxies :

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[Book]

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science fiction film aesthetics in light of Marshall McLuhan's thought /

First Statement of Responsibility

Artur Skweres.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (XXVI, 110 pages) :

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online resource

Series Title

Second language learning and teaching. Issues in literature and culture

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Includes bibliographical references.

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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.

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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.

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Springer Nature

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com.springer.onix.9783030041045

International Standard Book Number

9783030041038

International Standard Book Number

9783030041052

McLuhan, Marshall,1911-1980.

McLuhan, Marshall,1911-1980

Aesthetics.

Motion pictures-- Aesthetics.

Motion pictures and television.

Science fiction films-- History and criticism.

Technology in literature.

Aesthetics.

Motion pictures-- Aesthetics.

Motion pictures and television.

Science fiction films.

Technology in literature.

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Skweres, Artur

Date of Transaction

20200823080156.0

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[Book]

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