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Constable, Catherine (2018) Challenging capitalism : ethics, exploitation and the sublime in Moon and Source Code. Science Fiction Film and Television, 11 (3). pp. 417-448. doi:10.3828/sfftv.2018.25 ISSN 1754-3770.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2018.25
Abstract
This paper is the first academic article to offer a detailed analysis of both Duncan Jones’ sf films: Moon and Source Code. The readings explore the films’ complex philosophical themes, focusing on ethics, specifically utilitarianism, and the aesthetics of the sublime. Both discourses inform the films’ presentation of technology and labour within futuristic forms of late capitalism. Drawing links between the two films emphasises their shared themes of exploitation, suffering and resistance. This enables an appreciation of the complexities of Moon and provides a new way of reading Source Code, focusing on the interplay between the film’s different realities rather than privileging the virtual space of the train. While the films utilise the aesthetics of the sublime, my readings will trace the ways in which they close down the possibility of transcendence, thereby relocating resistance to the system within different types of replication and repetition
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Jones, Duncan, 1971- -- Moon, Astronauts, Helium, Mining engineering, Hallucinations and illusions, Jones, Duncan, 1971- -- Source Code, Terrorism, Time travel, Commuters, Ethics, Sublime, The, Capitalism | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Science Fiction Film and Television | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1754-3770 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 October 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 11 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 417-448 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3828/sfftv.2018.25 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 April 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 October 2020 | ||||||||
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