Technothriller
Film and the American Imagination
$75.98
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2026
Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262051019 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026205101X |
| Author: | Soraya Murray |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“A beautifully crafted and timely book on the technothriller that shows the power of film in shaping how we see and engage with all manner of contemporary technologies from biotech to artificial intelligence. A book I wish I’d written.”
—John Wills, author of Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture
“Charting the cinematic visions and cultural histories of the defining technologies of our age, this timely text illustrates the critical role of Hollywood in navigating and negotiating profound technological change.”
—Andrew Utterson, author of Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema
REVIEWS
“[A] scholarly, in-depth survey with insightful critiques of a fairly recent film genre.”
– Kirkus Reviews
About The Author
Soraya Murray
Soraya Murray teaches in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of On Video Games- The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space.
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