Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander

Programming the Future

Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Programming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castle, The Expanse, and Mr. Robot.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780231198318
• ISBN-10: 0231198310
• Artikelnr.: 64037650

Autorenporträt

Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television
2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative
3. 9/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion
4. American Civil Wars
5. Desiring a Different Future: The 100 and The Expanse
6. Rebooting Democracy and Mr. Robot
Conclusion: Democracy in Crisis
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index