Dead Celebrities, Living Icons: Tragedy and Fame in the Age of the Multimedia Superstar

John David Ebert

Praeger

<p>In this new collection of poems, John David Ebert traces the morphological arc of the rise and fall of civilizations in two halves: poems of genesis that see the world as a wondrous gleam of emergent arcs and living gods who create the forms of nature and then vanish from the scene; and poems of degeneration, in which technology comes to function as a supplement for the vanishing of the once creative gods, providing artificial sources for creative energy, such as cloning, genetic engineering and the technological capturing and enframing of the earth in gleaming metallic apparatuses of capture. The book traces the lines of these morphic flows and watches the shifting curvature of the earth as it moves from an age of wonder and mystery to an age of depletion and apocalyptic destruction of planetary flows.</p>

These Things We No Longer Are

Untimely Books

John David Ebert's Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons examines how movies since the late 1960s have developed a "myth of the machine" for our contemporary society. Modern technology, Ebert argues, has created a new environment which raises problems that our modern myths, in celluloid form, attempt to resolve by presenting a number of possible scenarios ranging from "demolition" of the machine, as in The Lord of the Rings, to "symbiosis," as in the Star Wars films. Ebert examines films such as Apocalypse Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Videodrome, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and A.I. for answers to the question how modern man can retain his humanity while living in a society which is increasingly dominated by the technology he has created.

Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons: Film as the Mythology of Electronic Society

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

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