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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Science fiction films"”.
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Artificial Identity: Representations of Robots and Cyborgs in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction Films
… conundrum. However, contemporary developments in science and technology that afford us a greater knowledge of the human brain have resulted in an increased scientific focus on consciousness, emotion and personhood. This thesis argues that such explorations into consciousness and emotion as …
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Exploration of sound-based music composition tools and techniques for Hollywood-style science fiction films
… and tools in the context of entertainment science fiction film. After an initial exploration of existing theories in the fields of electroacoustic music and film sound, a practical theory to evaluate and classify suitable sound sources is proposed to enable to composer to derive an …
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light: a rhetorical analysis of the role of existentialism, grieving, and space in science fiction films
<p>This research explores a collection of science fiction films released in four consecutive years that are wholly unique among the genre, including Gravity (2013), Interstellar (2014), The Martian (2015), and Arrival (2016). These films advance themes first enacted in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) …
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The antihuman unconscious in twenty-first century science fiction cinema: structure of feeling, the political unconscious, and problematising the human in science fiction films produced since 1999
… there is an antihuman unconscious present in science fiction cinema of the twenty-first century, which is the result of the tumultuous events of the previous two decades. These events have led many to question if the human species will, or should, survive into the future, and this is reflected …
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Programmable synthetic hallucinations : towards a boundless mixed reality
… information directly in the visual field. Science fiction films, television shows, and video games have trained audiences to think of holograms as luminous volumetric images that float registered in the viewer's 3D space and require no special glasses or optics to see or interact with them. …
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Exploding spaces : present and future urban spaces cinematically considered
… understand the visual dynamics of contemporary science fiction cities in film by exploring a number of diverse architectural and cinematic influences. The argument is initiated through a consideration of utopianism and science fiction, before moving onto specific architectural analysis focused …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
… and twenty-first century American literature and science fiction in order to engage issues of American nationalism and to interrogate how these texts construct and reinforce an American identity. It investigates how groups during different historical periods adapted the jeremiad either to advocate …
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Mnemophrenia: a science fiction film-essay on the future of cinema and artificial memories
… begins with theory, which then leads to the science fiction film Mnemophrenia that constitutes the practical aspect of it. I attempt to demonstrate how theory and practice can be joined to create a fruitful union, each one feeding the other. In my research, I am inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s …