TY - BOOK AU - Redmond,Sean TI - Liquid space: science fiction film and television in the digital age T2 - International library of the moving image SN - 9781786721044 AV - PN1995.9.S26 R44 2017eb U1 - 791.43615 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd KW - Science fiction films KW - History and criticism KW - Digital cinematography KW - Films de science-fiction KW - Histoire et critique KW - Cinéma numérique KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Reference KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Performing Arts KW - ukslc KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: liquid space -- Then and now: television time travel and the once wonderful end to the working day -- Eye-tracking the sublime in spectacular moments of science fiction film -- Emptying spaces: digital deterritorialisation -- Liquid bodies -- Millennial whiteness and cinematic outer space -- Liquid terror -- Sounding liquid science fiction -- Conclusion: we never let the fire go out N2 - In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fiction films and television programmes. He argues that they reveal the profound effects the digital age has had on our social lives. Through narratives that feature the 'post-human', genetic engineering and cloning, surveillance and data mining, space and time travel, artificial intelligence, online dating cultures and visions of catastrophe, they portray a world in which the material, and the stable, are being lost to the ever-more volatile and ephemeral idea of 'liquid space'. Redmond examines a wide selection of popular films and TV series such as Gravity, Under the Skin, The Lobster, Children of Men and Doctor Who, to locate how traditional values are being erased in favour of a new liquid modernity. Drawing on an eclectic range of approaches from phenomenology to critical race theory, and from close textual analysis to the revelations of eye-tracking technology, this book is an illuminating account of the digital age through the lens of science fiction UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1520204 ER -