SORAYA MURRAY

I enjoyed my first ‘teaser’ 15-minute talk about my forthcoming book, Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT 2026). Looking forward to my May 21, 2025 UCSC Cultural Studies lecture, in which I’ll be able to dig into the research.

I found an old poster of the video game lecture series I organized in 2017 — an all-star cast!

Coming Soon: my second single-author book, Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (The MIT Press, forthcoming 2026), continues my ongoing work in technology, culture, and the visual. I focus on films from the 1970s to the present classified as “thrillers” that channel societal anxiety or dread about advanced technologies like supercomputers, robotics, AI, biotech, military weaponry, and surveillance culture. Technothriller is about the changing imagination of technology within an American context and its role in engineering some of the most profound ideologies of modern life.