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Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema addresses questions about the connections between body and soul, virtuality, and the ways in which we engage with spirituality in the digital age. The book investigates notions of love, life and death, taking an interdisciplinary approach by combining cinematic themes with religious, philosophical and ethical ideas. Magerstadt argues how even the most spectacle-driven mainstream films such as Avatar, The Matrix and Terminator can raise interesting and important questions about the human self and our interaction with the world. Apart from these well-known science fiction epics, her analysis also draws on recent works, such as Inception, The Thirteenth Floor, eXistenZ, Aeon Flux, Total Recall (2012), Transcendence and TRON: Legacy. These films stimulate an engaging discussion on what makes us human, the role memory plays in understanding ourselves, and how virtual realities challenge the moral concepts that govern human relationships.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio

• Full title: Body, Soul and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
• Subtitle: Virtual Worlds and Ethical Problems
• Author: Sylvie Magerstadt
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 105
• EAN: 9781137399403
• ISBN: 1137399406
• ID: 05173045
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 278 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 163 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. September 2014

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