Silicon Valley Cinema
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2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0582-6 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0582-6 (ISBN)
Identifies in ‘Silicon Valley Cinema’ a recent trend in twenty-first century Hollywood film.
Silicon Valley corporations now dominate our daily lives to the extent that many of us now question their ability to determine the direction of human life in the twenty-first century. The 2010s saw Hollywood filmmakers engaging in this very debate. Through a sequence of films ranging from biopics of key Silicon Valley leaders to science fiction action films and whimsical workplace comedies, Hollywood films probed Silicon Valley’s impact on our past, present, and future. Silicon Valley Cinema analyses these films, arguing that they seek to encourage scepticism about our Silicon Valley overlords and have us step back from our immersion in Silicon Valley’s world. Doing so, they suggest, might make our working lives more pleasurable, our world a better place, and might even help us avoid a war with genetically enhanced apes or avert a robot-led apocalypse.
Silicon Valley corporations now dominate our daily lives to the extent that many of us now question their ability to determine the direction of human life in the twenty-first century. The 2010s saw Hollywood filmmakers engaging in this very debate. Through a sequence of films ranging from biopics of key Silicon Valley leaders to science fiction action films and whimsical workplace comedies, Hollywood films probed Silicon Valley’s impact on our past, present, and future. Silicon Valley Cinema analyses these films, arguing that they seek to encourage scepticism about our Silicon Valley overlords and have us step back from our immersion in Silicon Valley’s world. Doing so, they suggest, might make our working lives more pleasurable, our world a better place, and might even help us avoid a war with genetically enhanced apes or avert a robot-led apocalypse.
Joe Street is an Associate Professor in American History at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Introduction
Part one: Precursors
1. Technology and Surveillance in Millennial Hollywood
2. Critiquing Twenty-First Century Capitalism
3. Hollywood’s Bay Area
Part two: Real Genius
Chapter four: The Silicon Valley Biopic
Chapter five: Constructing the Silicon Valley Icon
Part three: Silicon Valley’s Dystopian Utopia
Chapter six: Technology Solutionism and the World of Work
Chapter seven: Dystopian Diversity
Part four: Silicon Valley’s Evil Geniuses
Chapter eight: Posthumanity and Masculinity
Chapter nine: The Turbo-Capitalist Tech Bro
Conclusion: Why Him? and the Dialectics of Silicon Valley Cinema
BibliographyIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.06.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-0582-3 / 1399505823 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-0582-6 / 9781399505826 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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