Part Three: Toward Cosmic Consciousness
Youngblood analyses 2001: A Space Odyssey to explore the "electronic age existentialism" (pp139–150). He examines Douglas Trumbull's use of mechanical processes to create the Stargate sequence (pp151–156) and describes the work of Jordan Belson as an example of cosmic cinema (pp157–177).
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