Bøger i Constellations serien

William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever made, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities.

Sean Redmond excavates the many significances of Blade Runner (1982): its breakthrough use of special effects as a narrative tool; its revolutionary representation of the future city; its treatment of racial and sexual politics; and its unique status as a text whose meaning was fundamentally altered in its re-released forms.

Mad Max (1979) is a singular piece of action cinema, one which had a major cultural impact. This monograph examines its considerable formal qualities in detail, including director George Miller s theory of cinema as "visual rock n roll" and his marriage of classical Hollywood editing and Soviet-style montage.

Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous vehicle for exploring a variety of themes, chief among them identity, belief and the nature and construction of reality.

From its opening moments featuring the aftermath of a plane crash on a tropical island, the television series Lost (2004-2010) became one of the most intriguing and talked about programmes in the era of digital media.

In exploring Ex Machina's ideas about consciousness, embodiment, and masculinity, all through the lens of a misogynist mad scientist, Joshua Grimm argues the result is a fascinating, truly unique film that immediately established Alex Garland as a breakout voice.

The Damned (1963) is the most intriguing of director Joseph Losey's British 'journeyman' films. Nick Riddle concentrates on historical and cultural context, place, genre, and other themes in order to try to make sense of a fascinating, underappreciated film.

This book is the first long-form critical study of David Lynch's DUNE (1984). It considers the relationship with the source novel, the rapidly changing context of early 1980s science fiction, and takes a close look at Lynch s attempt to breathe sincerity and mysticism into a blockbuster movie format that was shifting radically around him.

This volume examines Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) with an eye to the film's major themes, including mental illness, conspiracy theories, the impossibility of human closeness, and the nature of reality. It reads 12 Monkeys's portrayal of time travel in light of Einstein's ideas about time and the problem of free will versus determinism.

Rollerball, Norman Jewison's 1975 vision of a future dominated by anonymous corporations in which all individual effort is subsumed into a horrifically violent sport, remains critically overlooked. Andrew Nette examines Rollerball's making and reception to show how it anticipates numerous contemporary concerns.

Dan Dinello explicates Alfonso Cuaron's visionary Children of Men (2006) from ideological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. Dinello explores the film's criticism of reactionary politics, arguing that it prods us to imagine an egalitarian alternative by urging identification with rebels, outcasts, and racial and ethnic outsiders.