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Architecture and science-fiction film : Philip K. Dick and the spectacle of home

Title: Architecture and science-fiction film : Philip K. Dick and the spectacle of home / David T. Fortin.
Author: Fortin, David Terrance.
Publication: Farnham, Surrey [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.

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Description

x, 239 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrophies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite - the home - a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible."--P. 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Uniform Title

Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film adaptations.
Adaptations cinématographiques.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Science-fiction, architecture, and home. Defining science-fiction: Darko Suvin and the Genre -- The future and home -- Postfutursim and shifting notions of home -- Learning from Dick: Architectural perspectives on SF -- Re-visioning home in Dick-inspired films. Killing home: Blade Runner's strange obsessions and omissions -- Relinquishing home: Identity through architectural "otherness" -- Resurrecting home: Scattered boundaries and domestic-city in minority report -- Becoming home: identities, insects, and the dirty dwelling dilemma -- Go home -- I'm home -- becoming home: Architecture and grammar in SF.

ISBN

9781409407485
1409407489

LCCN

2010045320

OCLC

ocn676923108
676923108
SCSB-9723565

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library