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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155029303321

Autore

Fortin David Terrance

Titolo

Architecture and science-fiction film : Philip K. Dick and the spectacle of home / / David T. Fortin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-95746-5

1-315-26224-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series

Disciplina

791.43/615

Soggetti

Science fiction films - History and criticism

Motion pictures and architecture

Home in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Science-fiction, architecture, and home -- pt. 2. Re-visioning home in Dick-inspired films -- pt. 3. Go home. I'm home. Becoming home : architecture and grammar in SF.

Sommario/riassunto

The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrophies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite - the home - a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible.