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Article: Jacking in to The Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation .(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Kapell, Matthew, and William Doty, eds. New York: Continuum International Publishing, 2004. 187 + xiv + appendix pp., $19.95 (USD). ISBN: 0-8264-1588-1.
[1] If we really are in the Matrix, I have to open a target shooting school for bad guys. I may just be a Matrix-powering battery, but I wanna be a rich one. Of course, the presentation of reality in The Matrix, that of a late twentieth century, urban, consumerist society reeking of capitalist ethos, is fertile ground for such a Horatio Alger initiative. The edited work Jacking in to The Matrix: Cultural Reception and Interpretation is a fascinating analysis of a hugely successful popular cultural phenomenon ...