The Land of Faery as Cosmic Cheat: A Lewisian Analysis of Robert Zemekis' Contact
This essay explores Robert Zemekis' film adaptation of Carl Sagan's book Contact, through the lens of rhetorical constructs adapted from the critical writings of another science-fiction author, C.S. Lewis; specifically his concept of Sehnsucht, the rhetoric of technology, the persuasive us...
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University of Saskatchewan
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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