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On film / by Stephen Mulhall.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Routledge, 2016Edition: Third editionDescription: xv, 243 pages : 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781138796850 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1138796859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4375
LOC classification:
  • PN 1997 M956o 2016
Contents:
Introduction -- Kane's son, Cain's daughter: Ridley Scott's Alien -- Making babies: James Cameron's Aliens -- Mourning sickness: David Fincher's Alien 3 -- The monster's mother: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien resurrection -- Part 2. Film as philosophy: the priority of the particular -- Precrime, precognition and the pre-reflective cogito: Steven Spielberg's Minority report -- Part 3. The impersonation of personality: Brian de Palma's Mission: Impossible -- The burden of sex: John Woo's Mission: Impossible II -- An accelerated mutator: J.J. Abram's Mission: Impossible III -- Part 4. The legacy of Jason Bourne: Identity and the sinfulness of origins -- The enterprise, the Botany Bay and the Kobyashi Maru: rebooting Star Trek with Khan's wrath and Red matter -- The disavowal of animation: Brad Bird's Mission Impossible - Ghost protocol -- Cinematic repetition and how to avoid it: Ridley Scott's Prometheus -- Films discussed in the book.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1997 M956o 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000114846

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Kane's son, Cain's daughter: Ridley Scott's Alien -- Making babies: James Cameron's Aliens -- Mourning sickness: David Fincher's Alien 3 -- The monster's mother: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien resurrection -- Part 2. Film as philosophy: the priority of the particular -- Precrime, precognition and the pre-reflective cogito: Steven Spielberg's Minority report -- Part 3. The impersonation of personality: Brian de Palma's Mission: Impossible -- The burden of sex: John Woo's Mission: Impossible II -- An accelerated mutator: J.J. Abram's Mission: Impossible III -- Part 4. The legacy of Jason Bourne: Identity and the sinfulness of origins -- The enterprise, the Botany Bay and the Kobyashi Maru: rebooting Star Trek with Khan's wrath and Red matter -- The disavowal of animation: Brad Bird's Mission Impossible - Ghost protocol -- Cinematic repetition and how to avoid it: Ridley Scott's Prometheus -- Films discussed in the book.

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