Matrix revelations : a thinking fan's guide to the Matrix trilogy

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Southampton: Damaris, 2003.Description: 220p 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781904753019
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4375 C853M
Contents:
Part one : The films. The architects / Caroline Puntis, Peter S. Williams ; Down the rabbit hole : The matrix / Steve Couch ; Everything you know is wrong : The matrix reloaded / Clive Thorne ; It ends tonight : The matrix revolutions / Steve Couch ; Everything that you don't have to do : the cultural impact of the matrix trilogy / Steve Tilley -- Part two : The ideas. The architects' foundations / Peter S. Williams ; This is the construct : postmodernism and The matrix / Tony Watkins ; The second Renaissance : men, machines and a post-human future / Clive Thorne ; Chosen or caused? Morpheus versus the machines / Peter S. Williams ; Do you see what i see? religion in The matrix trilogy / Anna Robbins ; The matrix redeemed : love and redemption in The matrix trilogy / Tom Price ; Red pill, blue pill : conclusion / Tony Watkins ; The systematic anomaly / Tony Watkins.
Summary: Brandon Scott's sage and savvy analysis of more than fifty recent popular American movies, from Dirty Harry to Robocop 2, from Pretty Woman to Thelma and Louise, opens a unique slant on American mythology. He delves into the deepest dreams and perennial tensions in American culture: wealth and poverty, race relations, moral aloneness, the superhero and the solo redeemer, violence and war, the mythical West, relations of the sexes, and fears of the future. These portrayals in turn launch him into the chief themes and mythic elements in the New Testament. In the conversation and mutual criticism that his book engenders, Scott clarifies the values that contemporary culture and the Bible might bring to each other [Publisher description].
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Part one :
The films. The architects / Caroline Puntis, Peter S. Williams ; Down the rabbit hole : The matrix / Steve Couch ; Everything you know is wrong : The matrix reloaded / Clive Thorne ; It ends tonight : The matrix revolutions / Steve Couch ; Everything that you don't have to do : the cultural impact of the matrix trilogy / Steve Tilley
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Part two :
The ideas. The architects' foundations / Peter S. Williams ; This is the construct : postmodernism and The matrix / Tony Watkins ; The second Renaissance : men, machines and a post-human future / Clive Thorne ; Chosen or caused? Morpheus versus the machines / Peter S. Williams ; Do you see what i see? religion in The matrix trilogy / Anna Robbins ; The matrix redeemed : love and redemption in The matrix trilogy / Tom Price ; Red pill, blue pill : conclusion / Tony Watkins ; The systematic anomaly / Tony Watkins.

Brandon Scott's sage and savvy analysis of more than fifty recent popular American movies, from Dirty Harry to Robocop 2, from Pretty Woman to Thelma and Louise, opens a unique slant on American mythology. He delves into the deepest dreams and perennial tensions in American culture: wealth and poverty, race relations, moral aloneness, the superhero and the solo redeemer, violence and war, the mythical West, relations of the sexes, and fears of the future. These portrayals in turn launch him into the chief themes and mythic elements in the New Testament. In the conversation and mutual criticism that his book engenders, Scott clarifies the values that contemporary culture and the Bible might bring to each other [Publisher description].

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