Merging Madness: Rollerball as a Cautionary Tale

'''Hull, Elizabeth Anne. "Merging Madness: Rollerball as a Cautionary Tale."' In CW'' [163]-80.

On W. Harrison's "Roller Ball Murder" (q.v. under Fiction) and N. Jewison's ROLLERBALL (q.v. under Drama), emphasizing the film. "In Rollerball . . . the essential plot conflict is no longer the agony of the individual man against himself," as in the story, "but the battle of an individual . . . against external control by corporate society, control . . . cinematically associated with the highly mechanized—and metaphorically mechanizing—game of rollerball" (166).