Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema
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2014
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1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-48172-9 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-48172-9 (ISBN)
The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysis, Tucker offers an explanation of the Internet and a brief history of its portrayal on film in order examine how it has shaped contemporary versions of self-identity, memory, and the human body.
Aaron Tucker is Sessional Faculty in the Department of English at Ryerson University, Canada.
Introduction 1. The Cables Under, In, and Around Our Homes: 'The Net' as Viral Suburban Intruder 2. The Evolution of the Web Browser: The Global Village Outgrown 3. Avatar in the Uncanny Valley: The Na'vi and Us, The Machinic Audience 4. Hacking Against the Apocalypse: Tony Stark and the Remilitarized Internet 5. With a Great Data Plan Comes Great Responsibility: The Enmeshed Web 2.0 Internet User 6. Don't Shoot the (Instant) Messenger: The Efficient Virtual Body Learns 7. The Reel/Real Internet: Beyond Genre and the Often Vulnerable Virtual Family Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.08.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 18 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 254 p. 18 illus. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Avatar • Cinema • Contemporary • Cyborg • digital • digital effects • Film • History • Interface • Internet • Movies • Ontology • postbiological • Posthuman • virtual • Virtual Reality • Web browser |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-48172-6 / 1349481726 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-48172-9 / 9781349481729 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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