McLuhan's Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan's Thought

• Main Author: Skweres, Artur (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Issues in Literature and Culture,
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Technology in literature.; Aesthetics.; Screen Studies.; Literature and Technology/Media.

This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction films, treating them as visual metaphors or probes into the new reality dominated by electronic media: - it considers the relations between the senses and sensuality in Blade Runner, the...