Bullet-time in Simulation City: Revisiting Baudrillard and The Matrix by way of the "Real 1999"
The writers and directors of The Matrix famously claimed Jean Baudrillard as a source of inspiration for their movie, going as far as to feature a copy of Baudrillard’s signature book, Simulacra and Simulation, as a prominent prop in one of the movie’s first scenes. Baudrillard, however, explicitly...
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University College Cork
2012-02-01
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| Series: | Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media |
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| Online Access: | http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue 2/HTML/ArticleLaist.html |