Author Description

Introduction: The Deeper We Go, the More Complex and Sophisticated the Franchise Seems, and the Dizzier We Feel / William G. Doty -- Chapter 1. Welcome to the Sexual Spectacle: The Female Heroes of the Franchise / Martina Lipp -- Chapter 2. Is Neo White? Reading Race, Watching the Trilogy / C. Richard King and David J. Leonard -- Chapter 3. Religion, Community, and Revitalization: Why Cinematic Myth Resonates / Richard R. Jones -- Chapter 4. Story, Product, Franchise: Images of Postmodern Cinema / Bruce Isaacs and Theodore Louis Trost -- Chapter 5. Fascist Redemption or Democratic Hope? / John Shelton Lawrence -- Chapter 6. Stopping Bullets: Constructions of Bliss and Problems of Violence / Frances Flannery-Dailey and Rachel L. Wagner -- Chapter 7. The Déjà Vu Glitch in the Matrix Trilogy / Michael Sexson -- Chapter 8. Visions of Hope, Freedom of Choice, and the Alleviation of Social Misery: A Pragmatic Reading of the Matrix Franchise / Stephanie J. Wilhelm and Matthew Kapell -- Chapter 9. Biomorph:The Posthuman Thing / Gray Kochhar-Lindgren -- Chapter 10. Strange Volutions: The Matrix Franchise as a Post-Human Memento Mori / Timothy Mizelle and Elizabeth Baker -- Chapter 11. Try the Blue Pill: What's Wrong with Life in a Simulation? / Russell Blackford -- Conclusion: At the Edge of the World, Again / Matthew Kapell -- Appendix: Getting With the Program/s of the Franchise: User's Information -- Index.