eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Author: Roz Kaveney
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780755604807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A critical approach to science fiction films that considers them as both autonomous creations and contributions to the genre and to the broader culture, this work looks at the movies of alien invasion and movie franchises.
Author: Tracy Yates
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-07-23
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781973830993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Within these pages lies the answers to some of the questions that we have all asked ourselves. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The answers to these questions are so amazing, and yet so far removed from what we have been conditioned to believe. Deep inside we all know there is something more. Some of us focus in on this feeling and search and some of us suppress this feeling by finding other things to take our minds off of it, but the truth is we all have it. All I offer is the truth. The answers may not be what you expect but they are beneficial to you in amazing and profound ways. Step out of your comfort zone and discover the knowledge that has been hidden from you for thousands of years!
Author: Patricia Melzer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 0292778465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“An incisive critical work” that looks at Octavia Butler’s writing, the movies of the Matrix and Alien series—and more—through a feminist lens (Femspec). Feminist thinkers and writers are increasingly recognizing science fiction’s potential to shatter patriarchal and heterosexual norms, while the creators of science fiction are bringing new depth and complexity to the genre by engaging with feminist thewories and politics. This book maps the intersection of feminism and science fiction through close readings of science fiction literature by Octavia E. Butler, Richard Calder, and Melissa Scott and the movies The Matrix and the Alien series. Patricia Melzer analyzes how these authors and films represent debates and concepts in three areas of feminist thought: identity and difference, feminist critiques of science and technology, and the relationship among gender identity, body, and desire, including the new gender politics of queer desires, transgender, and intersexed bodies and identities. She demonstrates that key political elements shape these debates, including global capitalism and exploitative class relations within a growing international system; the impact of computer, industrial, and medical technologies on women’s lives and reproductive rights; and posthuman embodiment as expressed through biotechnologies, the body/machine interface, and the commodification of desire. Melzer’s investigation makes it clear that feminist writings and readings of science fiction are part of a feminist critique of existing power relations—and that the alien constructions (cyborgs, clones, androids, aliens, and hybrids) that populate postmodern science fiction are as potentially empowering as they are threatening.
Author: Pradheep Chhalliyil
Publisher: Sakthi Books INC
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780975258606
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A commentary book on Matrix based on Author's scientific and spiritual background
Author: Dara Joy
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780505528537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With her world falling apart, the last thing Deana Jones expects to find is a sexy, compelling stranger in her house. Lorgin knows Deana belongs with him, and now he must convince her of their shared destiny and that his passion will take her beyond the stars. Reissue.
Author: Jake Horsley
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1250096235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finally comes the ultimate book for all those seeking to know more about the philosophy behind The Matrix and its sequels. Suppose that this world is not what it seems, and that humanity is actually just a food source supplementing a reign of machines. Welcome to the premise behind the world of The Matrix: the movie phenomenon and massive box-office series that has also produced some of film's most intelligent and thoughtful moments in the last ten years. In the Matrix movies, "reality" is just a dreamscape, a representation that six billion points of view agree to agree is "real." So if the only reality we know is a cunning and elaborate façade, what then does that signify for us? Matrix Warrior gives us the means to understand this premise and its implications on our knowledge of self and place. Combining an in-depth examination of the film with philosophical inquiry and the teachings of Castandeda, Jake Horsley has produced in Matrix Warrior a profound yet witty analysis-and all readers need to get "unplugged." "This accessible, entertaining book will be an enjoyable companion for those who want to dig deeper into the movies' rich universe."- Booklist
Author: Garrett M. Graff
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2011-03-28
Total Pages: 698
ISBN-13: 031612088X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An intimate look at Robert Mueller, the sixth Director of the FBI, who oversaw the investigation into ties between President Trump's campaign and Russian officials. Covering more than 30 years of history, from the 1980s through Obama's presidency, The Threat Matrix explores the transformation of the FBI from a domestic law enforcement agency, handling bank robberies and local crimes, into an international intelligence agency -- with more than 500 agents operating in more than 60 countries overseas -- fighting extremist terrorism, cyber crimes, and, for the first time, American suicide bombers. Based on access to never-before-seen task forces and FBI bases from Budapest, Hungary, to Quantico, Virginia, this book profiles the visionary agents who risked their lives to bring down criminals and terrorists both here in the U.S. and thousands of miles away long before the rest of the country was paying attention to terrorism. Given unprecedented access, thousands of pages of once secret documents, and hundreds of interviews, Garrett M. Graff takes us inside the FBI and its attempt to protect America from the Munich Olympics in 1972 to the attempted Times Square bombing in 2010. It also tells the inside story of the FBI's behind-the-scenes fights with the CIA, the Department of Justice, and five White Houses over how to combat terrorism, balance civil liberties, and preserve security. The book also offers a never-before-seen intimate look at FBI Director Robert Mueller, the most important director since Hoover himself. Brilliantly reported and suspensefully told, The Threat Matrix peers into the darkest corners of this secret war and will change your view of the FBI forever.
Author: John C. McDowell
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 147662450X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →George Lucas spoke about the didactic role of cinema and about his own work being presented through the "moral megaphone" of the film industry. A considerable body of scholarship on the six-part Star Wars series argues (unconvincingly) that the franchise promoted neo-conservatism in American culture from the late 1970s onward. But there is much in Lucas' grand space opera to suggest something more ideologically complex is going on. This book challenges the view of the saga as an unambiguously violent text exemplifying reactionary politics, and discusses the films' identity politics with regard to race and gender.
Author: Dara Joy
Publisher: House of Sages
Published: 2015-05-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780692457153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"REJAR'S GOT THE WOW FACTOR!" He is a totally sexual creature. Handsome as sin, sensual as silk... This cat will get your tongue. And then some. When Lilac Devere discovers a beautiful cat with dual-colored eyes sprawled across her carriage, the proper regency miss decides to take the handsome fellow home to be her pet. Boy howdy, is she in for it now. DIDN'T YOUR MOTHER TELL YOU TO BE CAREFUL OF STRAY TOMCATS? Poor Lilac has no idea that her new cat is a feline shapeshifter. Soon, she is cuddling up to the kitty all night and telling the silken creature her darkest secrets. Lilac may think that Rejar is only her mischievous pet- but this cat knows who is his own... Multi-award winner! Winner of the Holt Medallion, Best Paranormal Book of the Year, Best Paranormal Romance by the Bookstores That Care Network, awarded Romantic Times Gold Medal, Voted an all-time Desert Isle Keeper. REVIEWS: "Ms. Joy delivers a knockout love story... In a word, wow!" - GOLD MEDALLION WINNER, Romantic Times Book Club "Sensual to its utmost degree..." - Liana LaRiccia "A romance of incandescent brilliance!" - Melinda Helfer "Rejar is hot, hot, hot!!" - Claudia "I read this book, and then I read it again and again and again. I can't and WONT get enough of this book! I don't think that I put the book down or ate and drank while I was reading..." - Daphne "A hero with the biggest heart a hero could have. Definitely a keeper" - Carla "The irony of this sexual god making his way in repressed Regency Society is just too delicious." - 5 STARS, The Romance Reader "I ached when he tried so hard to be loved for his ambivalent nature and not just for his sex. . ." - awarded DESERT ISLE KEEPER, LIKESBOOKS.COM "It's on my keeper shelf, where it will stay- until I reread it, and reread it, and reread it. . . ." - L. L. Mills
Author: Dave Addey
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 168335334X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A designer’s deep dive into seven science fiction films, filled with “gloriously esoteric nerdery [and] observations as witty as they are keen” (Wired). In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design. The book delves deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, WALL·E, and Moon, studying the design tricks and inspirations that make each film transcend mere celluloid and become a believable reality. These studies are illustrated by film stills, concept art, type specimens, and ephemera, plus original interviews with Mike Okuda (Star Trek), Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall), and Ralph Eggleston and Craig Foster (Pixar). Typeset in the Future is an obsessively geeky study of how classic sci-fi movies draw us in to their imagined worlds.
