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References to use

Please add to the list references that can be used for the film article.

• Mulhall, Stephen (2008). "PreCrime, precognition and the pre-reflective cogito: Stephen Spielberg's Minority Report". On Film. Thinking in Action. Routledge. pp. 157–188. ISBN 0415441536.
  • Got this. AaronY (talk) 09:47, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
    • Unfortunately, this was pretty much worthless. AaronY (talk) 11:30, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
• Nakamura, Lisa (2007). "The Social Optics of Race and Networked Interfaces in The Matrix Trilogy and Minority Report". Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. Electronic Mediations. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 95–130. ISBN 0816646120.
  • This book isn't available near where I live and from the looks at it in google preview, its most likely pretentious nonsense. I just spent $100 plus in books for Pre-Code Hollywood, and John Kennedy Toole I really can't fork out more money to buy something that looks like nonsense. AaronY (talk) 09:47, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
    • By contrast the Kowalski book I used is great. I'd like to find more good print sources, shame those won't do. AaronY (talk) 11:41, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
      • I found a really good print source in this Buckland book, and have added some info. AaronY (talk) 08:14, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
• Wow, good to see that you benefited from these! :) Do you need more? I only dropped these off since I found them while researching other films. Erik (talk | contribs) 23:03, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

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Additional references:

• Aichele, George (2006). "The Possibility of Error: Minority Report and the Gospel of Mark". Biblical Interpretation. 14 (1/2): 143–157.
• Atkinson, Paul (2007). "The Visualisation of Utopia in Recent Science Fiction Film". Colloquy: Text Theory Critique (14): 5–20. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Bakewell, Geoffrey W. (2008). "The One-Eyed Man is King: Oedipal Vision in Minority Report". Arethusa. 41 (1): 95–112. doi:10.1353/are.2008.0003. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Batey, Robert (2004). "Minority Report and the Law of Attempt" (PDF). Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. 1.
• Berkemeier, Christian (2004). "Kingdoms of the Blind: Technology and Vision in Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma and Stephen Spielberg's Minority Report". In Freese, Peter; Harris, Charles B (eds.). The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. American Literature Series. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 1564783553.
• Bond, Cynthia D. (2007). "Law as Cinematic Apparatus: Image, Textuality, and Representational Anxiety in Spielberg's Minority Report". Cumberland Law Review. 37 (25).
• Capers, I. Bennett (2009). "Notes on Minority Report". Suffolk University Law Review. 42 (795).
• Constandinides, Costas. "From the Prediction of Crime to the Prevision of Screenless Media: Spielberg's Adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report". From Film Adaptation to Post-Celluloid Adaptation: Rethinking the Transition of Popular Narratives and Characters across Old and New Media. Continuum. ISBN 1441103805.
• Cooper, Mark Garrett (2003). "The Contradictions of Minority Report". Film Criticism. 28 (2). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Dillman, Joanne Clarke (2007). "Minority Report: Narrative, Images, and Dead Women". Women's Studies. 36 (4): 229–249. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Eisikovits, Nir; Biderman, Shai (2005). "So Tired of the Future: Freedom and Determinism in Minority Report". In Blessing, Kimberly A; Tudico, Paul (eds.). Movies and the Meaning of Life. Open Court. ISBN 0812695755.
• Friedman, Lester D. (2003). "Minority Report: A Dystopic Vision". Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema (27). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Gordon, Andrew (2007). "Minority Report (2002): Oedipus Redux". Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0742555771.
• Grusin, Richard (2004). "Premediation". Criticism. 46 (1): 17–39. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Hall, Martin (2004). "Time and the Fragmented Subject in Minority Report". Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. 8. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Hanson, Matt (2005). "2002: Minority Report; Solaris". Building Sci-Fi Moviescapes: The Science Behind the Fiction. Focal Press. ISBN 0240807723.
• Jarvis, Brian (2004). "Image Burn: A Minority Report on the Future of US Punishment". Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture. Pluto Press. ISBN 0745315437.
• Kammerer, Dietmar (2004). "Video Surveillance in Hollywood Movies". Surveillance & Society. 2 (2/3).
• Krahn, Timothy; Fenton, Andrew; Meynell, Letitia (2009). "Novel Neurotechnologies in Film—A Reading of Steven Spielberg's Minority Report" (PDF). Neuroethics. 3 (1): 73–88. doi:10.1007/s12152-009-9038-8.
• Lyon, David. "Surveillance, Visibility, and Popular Culture". Surveillance Studies: An Overview. Polity. pp. 148–150. ISBN 074563592X.
• Mann, Karen B. (2005). "Lost Boys and Girls in Spielberg's Minority Report". Journal of Narrative Theory. 35 (2): 196–217. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• MacNeil, William P. (2005). "Precrime Never Pays! 'Law and Economics' in Minority Report". Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 19 (2): 201–219. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

• Alt: MacNeil, William. "Precrime Never Pays! Law and Economics in Minority Report". Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture. The Cultural Lives of Law. Stanford University Press. pp. 80–96.

• Rountree, Cathleen (2004). "Myth, Shadow Politics, and Perennial Philosophy in Minority Report". The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal. 23 (2): 77–88. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Rowlands, Mark (2003). "Minority Report: The Problem of Free Will". The Philosopher at the End of the Universe: Philosophy Explained Through Science Fiction Films. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 0312322348.
• Sánchez-Escalonilla, Antonio (2010). "Hollywood and the Rhetoric of Panic: The Popular Genres of Action and Fantasy in the Wake of the 9/11 Attacks". Journal of Popular Film & Television. 38 (1): 10–20. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Schlütter, Christian (2009). Shaft vrs. Minority Report – Blackness and Whiteness in Hollywood Film. GRIN Verlag. ISBN 3640365798.
• Sharpe, Matthew (2005). "Is there a Minority Report?, or: What is Subjectivity?". Other Voices. 2 (3). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Sutton, Brian (2005). "Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Spielberg's Minority Report". Explicator. 63 (4): 194–197. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Weber, Cynthia (2005). "Securitising the Unconscious: The Bush Doctrine of Preemption and Minority Report". Geopolitics. 10 (3): 482–499. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Weber, Cynthia (2005). "Who we might become". Imagining America at War: Morality, Politics and Film. Routledge. pp. 117–150.
• Wood, Aylish (2004). "The Metaphysical Fabric that Binds Us". New Review of Film & Television Studies. 2 (1): 1–18. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Wright, David (2008). "Alternative futures: AmI scenarios and Minority Report". Futures. 40 (5): 473–488. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2007.10.006. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

The above references relate to critical analysis. I have not researched production, but if you can, the British Film Institute provides an excellent list of references in their Film Index International list. I used to have access to this, but not anymore. It may be worth checking out Cinefex and American Cinematographer. Erik (talk | contribs) 16:59, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

I see that a couple of references (like the one from Rhizomes has been used; I was only avoiding redundancies with what was in the "Sources" section. Regarding themes, it may be worth phasing out the movie reviews used as references in favor of the more academic ones. Erik (talk | contribs) 20:27, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

"The Ending" Section

This section comes off as less informative than persuasive. One of the arguments presented, that the removal of part of the epilogue portion was tantamount to implicitly confirming the falseness, fails to make sense and seems like a non-sequitur tossed out as a proof. Overall, this portion really lacks evidence aside from a few observations and the words of a few commentators. I don't necessarily believe it should be given the weight that it has.156.12.190.83 (talk) 02:21, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Archive invisible?

Old discussions here were archived by user Erik back in January. The odd thing is, the archive has no link at all on the page. The only way it can be accessed seems to be through the history log of this talk page, looking up Erik's edit. Could someone fix this?Strausszek (talk) 02:48, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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Literally zero mentions of Religion in this article?

Seriously? How is there no one to quote about this in the Theme section of the article? Maybe I'll have to search on Google...

I'm also disappointed there's nothing about the theme of "seeing". "Can you see?" is repeated over and over again (along with variations), the glasses at the start, the man with the missing eyes, John's new eyes, and obviously seeing the future. Also, the problem of interpreting what is seen: they interpret the murder vision as an "echo", because that is what it looks like, the trust placed on the spider bots measurement method also fools the cops and allows John to evade detection, because they interpret the scan info as reality, and there's something similar to René Magritte's painting The Son of Man, when the balloons block the view so that the police don't see John and the precog.

I just re-watched this film after never seeing it for years and years, so it's not like I've put more work into reading the themes of this film than other people. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to these themes than other people? Well I guess I've seen that theme of "seeing" more obvious elsewhere, such as the film Exam, A Scanner Darkly, some people's philosophy writings (usually pomo). So maybe I just recognize it more easily.

But, ya, this movie and the movie A.I. have some religion themes! Very obvious I would think! BrianPansky (talk) 18:51, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

@BrianPansky: Not sure about this. Anyway if you want to add it as a theme you need references. From a quick search I found this: [1] and [2] with the latter's theme being better described as "faith" (imo way more appropriate than "religion" here).

--Fixuture (talk) 20:09, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

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Cyberpunk?

I see cyberpunk is listed in the lede as a genre, but I don't see it. The cyber element is here, but where's the punk? This is not comparable to either Blade Runner or Neuromancer, it's entirely too clean. I suggest that be removed. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 17:19, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

• @TheOldJacobite: I agree that it's not as cyberpunkish as other works such as the ones you named but it's still cyberpunk enough to be called so - which it is in reliable sources. The depicted future is gritty enough with all those mini-scanning drones, ubiquitous personalized augmented reality advertising and high density futuristic megacity etc. --Fixuture (talk) 16:27, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
• Fixature is right, it is cyberpunk as in WP:DUCK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.154.160.31 (talk) 04:35, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Themes section

The "themes" section is entirely too long, considering that there is an entire separate article covering these subjects. The section needs a considerable paring down to the most important ideas. The longer details should be, and are, covered in the main article. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 15:29, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

I've tried to grab the main theme points from each section as "teasers" for the separate article. References may be broken for a few minutes but a bot should be along shortly to fix. --MASEM (t) 20:35, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Well done! ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 13:48, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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