Schäfer, Dominik: Inventing Armageddon : technology as apocalyptic threat in science fiction movies. 2012
Inhalt
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Hiroshima: The Day that Changed the World… and Science Fiction
- 3 The Day the Earth Stood Still: The Fear of a Nuclear Apocalypse
- 3.1 Between ‘Nuclear Trance’ and Arms Race: Technology in the 1950s
- 3.2 “Klaatu Barada Nikto”: Between Techno-Optimism and the Nuclear Apocalypse
- 4 WarGames: Computerization as Apocalyptic Threat
- 4.1 1980s: ‘The Years of Living Dangerously’ – On the Brink of a ‘Hot War’
- 4.2 A Paradigm Shift from Techno-Optimism to Computer Criticism in WarGames
- 5 The Matrix: A Post-Human Techno-Apocalypse
- 5.1 Technology in the Digital Age: The 1990s between Reality and Virtuality
- 5.2 “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”: Technology in a Post-Human World
- 6 Conclusion
- 7 References
- 8 Index