Arrival

A study of Denis Villeneuve's genre-transcendent film.

List of contents

• Introduction
• 1. Arrival as Auteur Film Adaptation
• 2. Arrival as Hard Soft Science Fiction
• 3. Arrival as a Reflection on/of Communication
• 4. Arrival as an Experience of Time
• 5. Arrival as an Experience of Space
• 6. Arrival as a Political and Ethical Experience
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Filmography
• Bibliography
• Index

About the author

David Roche is a professor of film studies at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and an Institut Universitaire de France member. He is the author of Meta in Film and Television Series and Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction, and coeditor of Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film.

Summary

A study of Denis Villeneuve’s genre-transcendent film.

Product details

• Authors: David Roche
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781477330142
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-3014-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: 21st Century Film Essentials
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet