Dramatising disaster [[electronic resource] ] : character, event, representation / / edited by Christine Cornea and Rhys Owain Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
Disciplina |
791.4
791.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CorneaChristine
ThomasRhys Owain |
Soggetto topico |
Disaster films - History and criticism
Disasters - Press coverage |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4438-4648-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | TABLE OF CONTENTS; EDITORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; PART I INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; PART II INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; PART III INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463452703321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 | ||
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Dramatising disaster [[electronic resource] ] : character, event, representation / / edited by Christine Cornea and Rhys Owain Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
Disciplina |
791.4
791.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CorneaChristine
ThomasRhys Owain |
Soggetto topico |
Disaster films - History and criticism
Disasters - Press coverage |
ISBN | 1-4438-4648-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | TABLE OF CONTENTS; EDITORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; PART I INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; PART II INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; PART III INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786238703321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dramatising disaster [[electronic resource] ] : character, event, representation / / edited by Christine Cornea and Rhys Owain Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (180 p.) |
Disciplina |
791.4
791.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CorneaChristine
ThomasRhys Owain |
Soggetto topico |
Disaster films - History and criticism
Disasters - Press coverage |
ISBN | 1-4438-4648-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | TABLE OF CONTENTS; EDITORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; PART I INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; PART II INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; PART III INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814166003321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Christian Baron, Peter Nicolai Halvorsen, Christine Cornea |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (246 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.38762 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Sociology Knowledge - Discourse |
ISBN | 3-319-56577-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Science Fiction at a Crossroad between Ethics and Imagination; Christian Baron, Peter Nicolai Halvorsen and Christine Cornea -- Section I: Science, Technology and Science Fiction -- 2. The Perfect Organism: the intruder of the Alien films as a bio-fictional construct; Christian Baron -- 3. Science Fiction at the Far Side of Technology: Vernor Vinge's singularity thesis vs. the limits of AI-research; Mikkel Willum Johansen -- 4. A Greenhouse on Mars; Peter Westermann -- 5. Fascinating! Popular Science Communication and Literary Science Fiction: the shared features of awe and fascination and their significance to ideas of science fictions as vehicles for critical debate about scientific enterprises and their ethical implications; Gitte Meyer -- Section II: Identity and the Post-Human Condition -- 6. Our Serial (and Parallel) Selves: identity in the age of the trans-human; Stig W. Jørgensen -- 7. Commodified Life: post-humanism, cloning and gender in Orphan Black; Sherryl Vint -- 8. Religion in a World of Androids and Aliens: life and death in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Prometheus; Peter Nicolai Halvorsen -- 9. I Am Omega Man: religious repositioning of the secular apocalypse film in I Am Legend; Tony Degouveia -- Section III: The Politics and Ethics of Science Fiction -- 10. From Isolationism to Globalism: an overview of politics and ethics in the Hollywood science fiction film; Christine Cornea -- 11. Reinventing Utopia: politics and ethics of choice in the works of Kim Stanley Robinson; Niels Dalgaard -- 12. The Final Frontier: survival ethics in extreme living conditions as portrayed in Tom Godwin's The Cold Equations and Ridley Scott's Alien; Christian Baron -- 13. The Politics of Post-Apocalypse: ideologies on trial in John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids; Jerry Määttä -- 14. On Ustopias and Finding Courage in a Hopeless Situation; Mickey Gjerris and Maud M. L. Eriksen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255204903321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 | ||
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