Jacking in to the Matrix franchise : cultural reception and interpretation /
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| Imprint: | New York : Continuum, 2004. |
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| Description: | xiv, 215 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5203953 |
Table of Contents:
- The deeper we go, the more complex and sophisticated the franchise seems, and the dizzier we feel / William G. Doty
- 1. Welcome to the sexual spectacle : the female heroes in the franchise / Martina Lipp
- 2. Is Neo white? Reading race, watching the trilogy / C. Richard King and David J. Leonard
- 3. Religion, community, and revitalization : why cinematic myth resonates / Richard R. Jones
- 4. Story, product, franchise : images of postmodern cinema / Bruce Isaacs and Theodore Louis Trost
- 5. Fascist redemption or democratic hope? / John Shelton Lawrence
- 6. Stopping bullets : constructions of bliss and problems of violence / Frances Flannery-Dailey and Rachel L. Wagner
- 7. The Deja vu glitch in the Matrix trilogy / Michael Sexson
- 8. Visions of hope, freedom of choice, and the alleviation of social misery : a pragmatic reading of the Matrix franchise / Stephanie J. Wilhelm and Matthew Kapell
- 9. Biomorph : the posthuman thing / Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
- 10. Strange volutions : the Matrix franchise as a post-human memento mori / Timothy Mizelle and Elizabeth Baker
- 11. Try the blue pill : what's wrong with life in a simulation? / Russell Blackford
- At the edge of the world, again / Matthew Kapell
- App. Getting with the program/s of the franchise - users' information.