Applying philosophical analysis to Arrival (2016), the authors show it as a unique and groundbreaking female driven sci-fi narrative.
David Fleming
David H. Fleming is Senior Lecturer in Film & Media at the University of Stirling. He publishes and produces work that explores intersectional relations between screens, thinking, and worlds. He is the author/co-author of three published and three forthcoming monographs: Philosophers on Film: Conceptualising Aesthetics (EUP forthcoming), Rendering Confucius Cinematically: Chinese Film Philosophy and the Efficacious Screen-Play (Palgrave, forthcoming), Infinite Ontology: Streaming in the Chthulucene (forthcoming with William Brown), The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (2020, Edinburgh University Press, with William Brown), Chinese Urban Shi-nema: Cinematicity, Society and Millennial China (2020, Palgrave, with Simon Harrison), Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters with Ethical Event Films(2017, Intellect).
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