Last words : considering contemporary cinema / by Wood, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Preface / by Andrew Kötting -- Introduction -- Lenny Abrahamson -- Clio Barnard -- Marco Bellocchio -- Anton Corbijn -- Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck -- Fernando Eimbcke -- Michel Gondry -- Joanna Hogg -- Tom Kalin -- Charlie Kaufman -- Gideon Koppel -- Harmony Korine -- Andrew Kötting -- Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy -- Ray Lawrence -- James Marsh -- Christopher Nolan -- Christian Petzold -- Nicolas Winding Refn -- Kelly Reichardt -- Ben Rivers -- Ira Sachs -- Celine Sciamma -- Peter Strickland -- Tilda Swinton -- Wim Wenders -- Ben Wheatley -- Michael Winterbottom.…”
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Contemporary American science fiction film /

Table of Contents: “…Artificial intelligence (2001) / Christine Muller -- Through the lens of 9/11 : reflections of Bush era politics and the post-9/11 milieu in Minority report (2002) and V for Vendetta (2006) / Fran Pheasant Kelly -- Precarious lives, human rights and "the sense of today" : the continuing resonance and relevance of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of men (2006) / Terence McSweeney -- Seeing and touching the bodies of others : evolving the male animal toward secular moral enlightenment in the Planet of the apes reboot franchise / Carol Donelan -- Time travel, trauma and the futility of revenge in Looper (2012) / Stuart Joy -- Science fiction cinema between arthouse and blockbuster : from Stanley Kubrick's 2001 to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) / Steffen Hantke -- 21st-century Star wars : profiles in (female) courage / Stacey Peebles -- Rationality, emotionality and geopolitics in Arrival (2016) : from structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to 'quality' status / Geoff King -- "The world is built on a wall" : deconstructing Blade runner 2049 (2017) / Will Brooker -- Speculative anger and collective economic strength in Boots Riley's Sorry to bother you (2018) / Paul Petrovic -- Coping with the deconstruction of American identity : hybridization and self-destruction in Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) / Andrew Schopp -- Wakanda forever? …”