The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood: A Social Semiotics of Bodies and Worlds

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001—2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context of Conglomerate Hollywood. Using a social semiotics approach in a systematic corpus of films, the book argues that the SF film can be delineated by two semiotic squares —the first one centering on the genre's more—than—human ontologies (SF bodies), and the second one focusing on its imaginative...