{"product_id":"technothriller-isbn-9780262051019","title":"Technothriller","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat technothrillers—popular films that center advanced technology—can tell us about ourselves, and how they ignite our imagination in technologically supercharged times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTechnothriller\u003c\/i\u003e, Soraya Murray reveals how popular American films after the 1960s, in which technology assumes a central role—mainly biotech, military, and computational—channel our cultural anxieties, dreams, and convictions about the power and meaning of advanced technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with iconic adaptations from technothriller novels by Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton, such as \u003ci\u003eThe Hunt for Red October\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Andromeda Strain\u003c\/i\u003e, Murray considers \u003ci\u003eWestworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRollerball\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDemon Seed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWarGames\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEx Machina\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTenet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eM3GAN\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Creator\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the \u003ci\u003eTerminator\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMission: Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e franchises. Through these films and others, she traces deeply embedded popular beliefs about technology and innovation—and then asks what this tells us about the mechanics of power within our technological lives. Exploring how popular culture negotiates political and cultural attitudes toward innovation and difference, her work finds in technothrillers a new way of thinking about the troubled, sometimes catastrophic, relationships between humans and their inventions.Preface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Technothrillers, Imagination, and the Political\u003cbr\u003e1 The Technothriller Has Two Fathers\u003cbr\u003e2 Protocols and Hazmat Suits: The Biological Technothriller\u003cbr\u003e3 The Military Technothriller\u003cbr\u003e4 Bad Robots and the Innovators Who Made Them\u003cbr\u003e5 Hypercapitalism as Destructive Innovation\u003cbr\u003e6 Power Fantasies of the Supercomputer\u003cbr\u003e7 Tech’s Gender Problems\u003cbr\u003e8 Counter-Visions: \u003ci\u003eThe Creator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 The Black Tech Archetype\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003eENDORSEMENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautifully crafted and timely book on the technothriller that shows the power of film in shaping how we see and engage with all manner of contemporary technologies from biotech to artificial intelligence. A book I wish I’d written.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Wills, author of \u003ci\u003eGamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Charting the cinematic visions and cultural histories of the defining technologies of our age, this timely text illustrates the critical role of Hollywood in navigating and negotiating profound technological change.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Andrew Utterson, author of \u003ci\u003ePersistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] scholarly, in-depth survey with insightful critiques of a fairly recent film genre.” \u003cbr\u003e– \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSoraya Murray teaches in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233606873317,"sku":"NP9780262051019","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262051019.jpg?v=1767737842","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/technothriller-isbn-9780262051019","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}