Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Stacy Gillis MEDIA INTERTEXTS AND CONTEXTS Vectorial Dynamics: Transtextuality and Complexity in the Matrix Aylish Wood 'You Hear About Them All the Time': A Genealogy of the Sentient Program Andrew Shail The Rules of the Game, The Burden of Narrative: Enter the Matrix Diane Carr Virtual Actors, Spectacle and Special Effects: Kung Fu Meets 'All That CGI Bullshit' Dan North The Transparency of the Interface: Reality Hacking and Fantasies of Resistance Thomas Foster Cyber Noir: Cyberspace, (Post)Feminism and the Femme Fatale Stacy Gillis THE POLITICS OF MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY Playing it Cool in The Matrix Claudia Springer Moving The Matrix: Kinesic Excess and Post-industrial Being Anne Cranny-Francis Fashion, Fetish and Spectacle: The Matrix Dresses Up - and Down Pamela Church Gibson The Multiplication of Difference in Post-Millennial Cyberpunk Film: The Visual Culture of Race in the Matrix Trilogy Lisa Nakamura Changing Cyberspaces: Dystopia and Technological Excess Kate O'Riordan Baudrillardian Revolutions: Repetition and Radical Intervention in the Matrix Trilogy Catherine Constable Immanence, Autonomy and Integral Anomalies Paul Sheehan Bibliography Filmography Gameography Index

About the Author

Stacy Gillis is a Research Fellow in Cyberculture at the University of Exeter. Published articles include "Cybersexual/Cybertextual: Pornography and Embodiment in Cyberspace" and "Cyberfeminism".

Reviews

A useful anthology for all things Matrix.
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