Interfacing with the Internet in Popular

The Internet is at once the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Examining both science fiction and realistic dramas, Tucker closely engages with films like The Net, Hackers, and The Matrix trilogy alongside more recent works like Tron: Legacy, The Social Network, The Amazing Spiderman, and Avatar. In combination with film theory and close textual analysis, he balances a historical understanding of the development of the Internet with an explanation of how the technology works in order to explore the ways in which this technology, both as a new medium and as represented in popular film, has shaped contemporary versions of self-identity, memory, and the human body.

Aaron Tucker is Professor of English at Ryerson University, Canada.

Introduction
1. The Cables Under, In, and Around Our Homes: 'The Net' as Viral Suburban Intruder
2. The Evolution of the Web Browser: The Global Village Outgrown
3. Avatar in the Uncanny Valley: The Na'vi and Us, The Machinic Audience
4. Hacking Against the Apocalypse: Tony Stark and the Remilitarized Internet
5. With a Great Data Plan Comes Great Responsibility: The Enmeshed Web 2.0 Internet User
6. Don't Shoot the (Instant) Messenger: The Efficient Virtual Body Learns
7. The Reel/Real Internet: Beyond Genre and the Often Vulnerable Virtual Family
Conclusion

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Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema

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