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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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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1997 M956o 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000114846
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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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