Arrival: 21st Century Film Essentials
Autor David Rocheen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2024
In Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016), scientists must decipher the language of and peacefully communicate with aliens who have landed on Earth before the world’s military attacks. In this first book-length study of the film, scholar David Roche argues that it is one of the most important films of this century, and the most brilliant science fiction film since Blade Runner. Roche posits Arrival as a blockbuster with artistic ambitions—an argument supported by the film’s several Academy Award nominations—and looks closely at how the film engages with theoretical questions posed by contemporary film studies and philosophy alike. Each section explores a central aspect of the film: its status as an auteur adaptation; its relation to the science fiction genre; its themes of communication on narrative and meta-narrative levels; its aesthetics of time and space; and the political and ethical questions it raises. Ultimately, Roche declares Arrival a unique, multifaceted experience in the world of hard science fiction films, placing it in context with works like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Contact while also examining how it bridges the gap between genre and art house cinema.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781477330159
ISBN-10: 1477330151
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 26 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria 21st Century Film Essentials
ISBN-10: 1477330151
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 26 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria 21st Century Film Essentials
Notă biografică
David Roche is a professor of film studies at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and an Institut Universitaire de France member. He is the author of Meta in Film and Television Series and Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction, and coeditor of Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film.
Cuprins
- Introduction
- 1. Arrival as Auteur Film Adaptation
- 2. Arrival as Hard Soft Science Fiction
- 3. Arrival as a Reflection on/of Communication
- 4. Arrival as an Experience of Time
- 5. Arrival as an Experience of Space
- 6. Arrival as a Political and Ethical Experience
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
A study of Denis Villeneuve’s genre-transcendent film.