Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination

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.

Along with iconic adaptations from technothril...