From Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film

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I.B.Tauris, 2005 M01 28 - 224 pages
Written by a world expert in Science Fiction, Strange Days, Alien Dreams is both a hugely entertaining and enlightening read and a new critical approach to SF films that considers them as both autonomous creations and contributions to the genre and to the broader culture. Roz Kaveney looks at the movie of alien invasion and movie franchises, as well as offering deep readings of the 'Alien' quartet, of Dark City and Strange Days offers extended consideration of the Star Wars series and the Terminator films, celebrates Galaxy Quest and much more

About the author (2005)

Roz Kaveney is a British Writer, critic, and Poet, born on July 9, 1949. She attended Pembroke College, Oxford. Her focus was on Martian poetry and belonged to a poetry group. For a time she worked as a sex worker, transgender rights activist, a writer (articles printed in The Independent and The Guardian), and editor (META magazine). She made multiple appearances on Television show After Dark. She is the author of Dialectic of the Flesh, and Rituals-Rhapsody of Blood. Her book Tiny Pieces of Skull won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction.

Bibliographic information

TitleFrom Alien to the Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film
AuthorRoz Kaveney
PublisherI.B.Tauris, 2005
ISBN0857712748, 9780857712745
Length224 pages
  
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