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



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Autore: Fortin David Terrance Visualizza persona
Titolo: Architecture and science-fiction film : Philip K. Dick and the spectacle of home / / David T. Fortin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 791.43/615
Soggetto topico: Science fiction films - History and criticism
Motion pictures and architecture
Home in motion pictures
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Architecture and science-fiction film  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-351-95746-5
1-315-26224-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910155029303321
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Serie: Ashgate studies in architecture series.