Celluloid Heroes

Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons by David John Ebert

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Author: David John Ebert
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 30 Jun 2005
Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation
Publication Country: Christchurch, New Zealand
Language: English
ISBN: 9781877275746
File size: 8 Mb
File Name: Celluloid.Heroes.&.Mechanical.Dragons.pdf
Download Link: Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons
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John David Ebert's Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons examines how movies since the late 1960s have developed a "myth of the machine" for our contemporary society. Modern technology, Ebert argues, has created a new environment which raises problems that our modern myths, in celluloid form, attempt to resolve by presenting a number of possible scenarios ranging from "demolition" of the machine, as in The Lord of the Rings, to "symbiosis," as in the Star Wars films. Ebert examines films such as Apocalypse Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Videodrome, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and A.I. for answers to the question how modern man can retain his humanity while living in a society which is increasingly dominated by the technology he has created.

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