TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Contemporary cinema and video games express considerable skepticism toward the colonization of further planets. Contemporary films including Elysium and Passengers depict space travel as the prolongation of inequalities within human civilization, while others such as Gravity and The Martian predict a rebirth of the human species through technological advances and space travel limited to a lucky few. Games, meanwhile, explore topics ranging from private spaceflight to the genetic modification required for long-term space habitation, especially in EVE Online, which we focus on in this chapter. Although both contemporary films and games celebrate technological advances, these media also show that multiple inequalities lurk behind the celebratory human renewal into a multiplanetary species.
VL  - 25
SN  - 978-1-78973-495-9, 978-1-78973-496-6/1571-5043
DO  - 10.1108/S1571-504320190000025005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320190000025005
AU  - Ceuterick Maud
AU  - Johnson Mark R.
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Space Tourism in Contemporary Cinema and Video Games
T2  - Space Tourism
T3  - Tourism Social Science Series
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 93
EP  - 115
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -