Commodity Futures: Corporate State and Personal Style in Three Recent Science-Fiction Movie

Byers, Thomas B. "Commodity Futures: Corporate State and Personal Style in Three Recent Science-Fiction Movies." SFS #43, 14.3 (Nov. 1987): 326-39. Rpt. Alien Zone. Annette Kuhn, ed.

The films are ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, AND STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, to which TBB applies a very insightful Leftist analysis. Concludes that the corporate state is brought into question in ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER, reinforced in STAR TREK II; along the way there is useful commentary on machines, mechanistic structures, and mechanistic people. See this Category, P. Fitting's "Futurecop" article.