What technothrillers—popular films that center advanced technology—can tell us about ourselves, and how they ignite our imagination in technologically supercharged times.In
Technothriller, Soraya Murray reveals how popular American films after the 1960s, in which technology assumes a central role—mainly biotech, military, and computational—channel our cultural anxieties, dreams, and convictions about the power and meaning of advanced technology.
Along with iconic adaptations from technothriller novels by Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton, such as
The Hunt for Red October and
The Andromeda Strain, Murray considers
Westworld,
Rollerball,
Demon Seed,
WarGames,
Ex Machina,
Tenet,
M3GAN, and
The Creator, as well as the
Terminator and
Mission: Impossible franchisesThrough these films and others, she traces deeply embedded popular beliefs about technology and innovation—and then asks what this tells us about the mechanics of power within our technological lives. Exploring how popular culture negotiates political and cultural attitudes toward innovation and difference, her work finds in technothrillers a new way of thinking about the troubled, sometimes catastrophic, relationships between humans and their inventions.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
296 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
MIT Press Ltd |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2026-02-03 |
| ISBN |
9780262051019 |
