TECHNOTHRILLER

Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, Feb 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies 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.

THE MIT PRESS, SPRING 2026

Some of the films considered in Technothriller:

Above: Rollerball, Looker, Jurassic Park, Demon Seed, The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy’s Without Remose

Above: WarGames, Westworld, Clear and Present Danger, Disclosure, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Creator, M3GAN, Terminator 2, Stalking Laura, Tenet, The Andromeda Strain