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'''Hull, Elizabeth Anne. "Merging Madness: Rollerball as a Cautionary Tale."''' In ''CW'' [163]-80.[http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Clockwork_Worlds,_ed._Erlich_%26_Dunn] 

		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). 

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