Research Catalog

Details

Description

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

Summary

1. "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

1. Ashgate studies in architecture series

Uniform title

1. Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Subject

1. Dick, Philip K. > Film adaptations
2. Dick, Philip K
3. Dick, Philip K. 1928-1982
4. Science fiction films > History and criticism
5. Motion pictures and architecture
6. Home in motion pictures
7. Science fiction films
8. Science-Fiction-Film
9. Zuhause Motiv
10. Architektur
11. Bühnenbild
12. Filmarchitektur
13. Innenarchitektur
14. Roman
15. Verfilmung
16. Architektur
17. Bühnenbild
18. Science-Fiction-Film
19. Zuhause
20. Architecture in motion pictures

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Film adaptations.
3. Adaptations cinématographiques.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.