Science Fiction.
Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying pa...
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Taylor & Francis
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 The science in science fiction
- The sound (and look) of science
- The critical potential, pleasures and politics of 'bad' science
- Unpicking science's self-image
- The social subjectivity of (mad) scientists
- The schizoid scientist, sexual terror and political complicity
- Women in the lab: body parts
- Women in the lab: scientists
- Conclusion
- 2 Sf, spectacle and self-reflexivity
- Attractions
- Spectacle, narrative and affect
- Special effects and immersivity
- The sublime
- The grotesque
- Camp
- Self-reflexivity: inanimating the animate, animating the inanimate
- Self-reflexivity: surveillance, interpellation, reification, death
- Conclusion
- 3 Sf, colonialism and globalisation
- Sf, cinema and the colonial imagination
- Sf's colonial imaginary
- Post-imperial melancholy in British sf
- Race and anti-imperialism in US countercultural sf
- Neo-liberalism and the sf of deindustrialisation
- Sf figurations of neoliberal spaces
- Representations of labour in contemporary sf
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.