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" Aliens R us : "
edited by Ziauddin Sardar and Sean Cubitt
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BL
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633128
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Aliens R us : : the other in science fiction cinema /\ edited by Ziauddin Sardar and Sean Cubitt
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186 pages ;; 22 cm
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0745315445
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: 9780745315447
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: 0745315399
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: 9780745315393
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Delicatessen : eco-apocalypse in the new French science fiction cinema / Sean Cubitt -- Rewriting the 'American dream' : postmodernism and otherness in Independence day / Jan Mair -- Displacements of gender and race in Space : above and beyond / Nickianne Moody -- Star trek : first contact : the hybrid, the whore and the machine / Christine Wertheim -- Japanimation : techno-orientalism, media tribes and rave culture / Toshiya Ueno -- Wicked cities : the other in Hong Kong science fiction / Gregory B Lee and Sunny SK Lam -- Saying 'yours' and 'mine' in Deep space nine / Kirk W Junker and Robert Duffy -- False and double consciousness : race, virtual reality and the assimilation of Hong Kong action cinema in The matrix / Peter X Feng -- Global visions and European perspectives / Dimitris Eleftheriotis
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This work explores the global culture of science fiction cinema, and in particular its representation of contemporary images of the other. The contributors examine the science fiction genre as an international, populist form of social analysis
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Science fiction films-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/915
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PN1995.9.S26A45 2002
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Sardar, Ziauddin
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Cubitt, Sean,1953-
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Aliens are us
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