£155.00
Publication Date:
26 Oct 2015
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 14 - 19 May 2024
Description
Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader is an essential resource for literature students studying science fiction, science and popular culture, and contemporary theory. This book combines key theories that have become touchstones for work in the field with more recent thinking to showcase how theoretical paradigms central to science fiction such as posthumanism and mediation have become central to critical theory overall in the twenty-first century.
The book is divided into four parts:
Gender, Technology and the Body
The Science-Fictionalization of Everyday Life
Media, Mediation, Science Fiction
Posthumanisms
Each part will not only to outline the central critical trends in the study of science fiction across media but will also to show dialogue and exchange as these concepts are refined. Each section will conclude with a list of recommendations for further reading. In this volume Sherryl Vint brings together the most important critical essays and approaches to the study science fiction over the last 40 years to create an ideal resource for classrooms.
Contents
Introduction: Semiotic Ghosts and Broken Dreams
Part 1: Gender, Technology and the Body
1. Bodies in Space: Film as Carnal Knowledge, Annette Michelson
2. Typewriter, Friedrich Kittler
3. Horror and the Monstrous Feminine, Barbara Creed
4. Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery and Special Effects, Vivian Sobchack
5. excerpts from Connected: What it Means to Live in Network Society, Steve Shaviro
6. Gendering the Technological Imagination, Anne Balsamo
Part 2: The Science-Fictionalization of Everyday Life
7. Bloodless Transfusions, Manuel De Landa
8. Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative, Susan Squier
9. Bioinformatic Bodies and the Problems of 'Life Itself', Eugene Thacker
10. A Monstrous Vision: Disney, Science Fiction and Cinemascope, Jay Telotte
11. Everyday Nanowars: Video Games and the Crises of the Digital Battlefield, Colin Milburn
12. Practicing Media Archaeology: Creative Metaphors for Remediation, Jussa Parikka
Part 3: Media, Mediation, Science Fiction
13. The Videology of Science Fiction, Garrett Stewart
14. The Cinema of Attractions, Tom Gunning
15. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard
16. On a Clear Day You Can See the Horizon of Invisibility: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production, Brooks Landon
17. The Wonder Years and Beyond: 1989-1995, Michelle Pierson
18. The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence, Henry Jenkins
Part 4: Posthumanisms
19. The Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway
20. The Life Cycle of Cyborgs, N. Katherine Hayles
21. The Image Virus, Scott Butkatman
22. Meta(l)morphoses, Rosi Braidotti
23. The Transmolecularization of [Black] Folk: Space in the Place, Sun Ra, and Afrofuturism, Nabeel Zuberi
24. When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis: Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain, Susan Napier
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