Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (drama criticism)

Bukatman, Scott. Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993.

Discussion includes the films Videodrome, Blade Runner, RoboCop, Cronenberg's The Fly, Tron, and the Alien and Terminator series. ". . . Bukatman's thesis [is] that one of the major causes of actual degeneration of the human subject is modern commercial and electronic images and spaces." Rev. Norman Fisher, Extrapolation 35.3 (Fall 1994): 257-59, here quoting 259. (RDE, 01/09/94)