Table of contents
Introduction......................................................................................................... 5
Chapter I: (Confusing (un)reality.................................................................... 10
1.1 (Un)reality in context................................................................ 10
1.2 Jean Baudrillard: Simulacrums and Hyperreality...................... 16
Chapter II: Technology and (un)reality......................................................... 22
2.1 (Old) Media....................................................................................... 31
2.2 Digitalization.................................................................................... 37
2.3 Videogames....................................................................................... 47
2.4 Virtual Reality ...................................................................................56
2.5 Technology and/in Cinema............................................................. 65
Chapter III: Cinema and (un)reality................................................................. 70
3.1 Ideology, (Collective) Imagination and Utopias......................... 73
3.2 Semiology and knowledge of (un)reality..................................... 78
3.3 Postmodernity................................................................................... 89
3.4 Science Fiction.................................................................................. 93
Chapter IV: Practical project - Luna............................................................... 103
Conclusions.......................................................................................................... 108
Bibliography............................................................................................................116
Filmography.......................................................................................................... 125
Gameography.........................................................................................................129
Appendix: Luna.................................................................................................... 130
More intriguing information
1. EU enlargement and environmental policy2. Are Japanese bureaucrats politically stronger than farmers?: The political economy of Japan's rice set-aside program
3. How much do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
4. An Economic Analysis of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: Implications for Overweight and Obesity among Higher- and Lower-Income Consumers
5. Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
6. The Macroeconomic Determinants of Volatility in Precious Metals Markets
7. Distribution of aggregate income in Portugal from 1995 to 2000 within a SAM (Social Accounting Matrix) framework. Modeling the household sector
8. Poverty transition through targeted programme: the case of Bangladesh Poultry Model
9. The name is absent
10. Giant intra-abdominal hydatid cysts with multivisceral locations