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Dark City a fugitive from the law discovers that the city space he inhabits is actually an island adrift in outer space , and in The Thirteenth Floor a computer company executive finds that the world he thought to be his " real " urban ...
Dark City a fugitive from the law discovers that the city space he inhabits is actually an island adrift in outer space , and in The Thirteenth Floor a computer company executive finds that the world he thought to be his " real " urban ...
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... Dark City as a surrealistic allegory of the postmodern urban space in which the subject struggles to locate his or her position within an overwhelming and increasingly abstract techno - capitalist network . 15 In Dark City this sense of ...
... Dark City as a surrealistic allegory of the postmodern urban space in which the subject struggles to locate his or her position within an overwhelming and increasingly abstract techno - capitalist network . 15 In Dark City this sense of ...
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... Dark City , with Jane and Douglas united in the " real world , " looking over the ocean of a futuristic 2024 Los Angeles . Like Dark City , then , The Thirteenth Floor questions reality only to offer yet another Hollywood answer . But ...
... Dark City , with Jane and Douglas united in the " real world , " looking over the ocean of a futuristic 2024 Los Angeles . Like Dark City , then , The Thirteenth Floor questions reality only to offer yet another Hollywood answer . But ...
Contents
Philippe Mather Figures of Estrangement in Science Fiction Film | 186 |
Cornelius Partsch Paul Scheerbart and the Art of Science Fiction | 202 |
Richard Swope Science Fiction Cinema and the Crime of Social | 221 |
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