The Politics of Big Fantasy : The Ideologies of Star Wars, the Matrix and the Avengers

McDowell, John C.

McFarland & Co Inc（2014/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786474882
• DDC分類 791.43615

Full Description

Bringing critical attention to a particular set of science fiction and fantasy films--Larry and Andy Wachowski's The Matrix, George Lucas' Star Wars saga, and Joss Whedon's Avengers--this book utilizes a wide-ranging set of critical tools to illuminate their political ideologies, while also examining any resistant and complicating turns or byways the films may provide. What they all have in common ideologically is that they--or at least the genres they belong to--tend to be regarded as belonging to politically conservative frames of sociocultural reference. With the Star Wars saga, however, this idea is shown to be superficial and weak.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deleteix

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: Why So Serious?

1. The Super ­Body-Politic: Nationally Assembling Joss Whedon's Exceptional The Avengers

2. "He was deceived by a lie": Tragedy and the Dark Plague of the Politics of Fear in George Lucas' Star Wars

3. Dystopian Polyvalence: Emancipating the Mediated Life from The Matrix

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index