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Contents
Introduction
Scene 1: Identity Issues
“Grey Matters”: Personal Identity in the Fringe Universe(s)
Person of Interest: The Machine, Gilles Deleuze, and a Thousand Plateaus of Identity
Are J. J. Abrams’s “Leading Ladies” Really Feminist Role Models?
Scene 2: Memento Mori
The End Is Nigh: Armageddon and the Meaning of Life Found through Death
The Fear of Bones: On the Dread of Space and Death
Do We All Need to Get Shot in the Head? Regarding Henry, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and Ethical Transformation
Scene 3: Moral Matters
Fringe and “If Science Can Do It, Then Science Ought to Do It”
An Inconsistent Triad? Competing Ethics in Star Trek into Darkness
The Monster and the Mensch
Scene 4: Friends and Family
Abrams, Aristotle, and Alternate Worlds: Finding Friendship in the Final Frontier
Heroic Love and Its Inversion in the Parent-Child Relationship in Abrams’s Star Trek
You Can’t Choose Your Family: Impartial Morality and Personal Obligations in Alias
Scene 5: Metaphysically Speaking
Is Abrams’s Star Trek a Star Trek Film?
Determinism, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility in Alias
Finding Directions by Indirection: The Island as a Blank Slate
Scene 6: Your Logic Is Flawless
You Can’t Change the Past: The Philosophy of Time Travel in Star Trek and Lost
Rabbit’s Feet, Hatches, and Monsters: Mysteries vs. Questions in J. J. Abrams’s Stories
Scene 7: Considering Cloverfield
Monsters of the World, Unite! Cloverfield, Capital, and Ecological Crisis
Cloverfield, Super 8, and the Morality of Terrorism
Scene 8: Talkin’ ’Bout a Revolution
A Place for Revolutions in Revolution? Marxism, Feminism, and the Monroe Republic
A Light in the Darkness: Ethical Reflections on Revolution
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
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