The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Latham, Rob

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Produktbeschreibung

The excitement of possible futures found in science fiction has long fired the human imagination, but the genre's acceptance by academe is relatively recent. No longer marginalized and fighting for respectability, science-fictional works are now studied alongside more traditional art forms. Tracing the capacious genre's birth, evolution, and impact across nations, time periods, subgenres, and media, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction offers an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of this robust area of scholarly inquiry and considers the future directions that will dictate the terms of the scholarly discourse. The Handbook begins with a focus on questions of genre, covering topics such as critical history, keywords, narrative, the fantastic, and fandom. A subsequent section on media engages with film, television, comics, architecture, music, video games, and more. The genre's role in the convergence of art and everyday life animates a third section, which addresses topics such as UFOs,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199838851
• Artikelnr.: 41661412

Autorenporträt

Rob Latham is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption and a senior editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies. He is also a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television and The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
Introduction
Part I. Science Fiction as Genre
1. "Extrapolation and Speculation"
Brooks Landon
2. "Aesthetics"
Peter Stockwell
3. "Histories"
Arthur B. Evans
4. "Literary Movements"
Gary K. Wolfe
5. "Fandom"
Farah Mendlesohn
6. "The Marketplace"
Gary Westfahl
7. "Pulp Science Fiction"
Jess Nevins
8. "Literary Science Fiction"
Joan Gordon
9. "Slipstream"
Victoria de Zwaan
10. "The Fantastic"
Brian Attebery
11. "Genre vs. Mode"
Veronica Hollinger
Part II. Science Fiction as Medium
12. "Film"
Mark Bould
13. "Radio and Television"
J.P. Telotte
14. "Animation"
Paul Wells
15. "Art and Illustration"
Jerome Winter
16. "Comics"
Corey Creekmur
17. "Video Games"
Pawe? Frelik
18. "Digital Arts and Hypertext"
James Tobias
19. "Music"
John Cline
20. "Performance Art"
Steve Dixon
21. "Architecture"
Nic Clear
22. "Theme Parks"
Leonie Cooper
Part III. Science Fiction as Culture
23. "The Culture of Science"
Sherryl Vint
24. "Automation"
Roger Luckhurst
25. "Military Culture"
Steffen Hantke
26. "Atomic Culture and the Space Race"
David Seed
27. "UFOs, Scientology, and Other SF Religions"
Gregory L. Reece
28. "Advertising and Design"
Jonathan M. Woodham
29. "Countercultures"
Rob Latham
30. "Sexuality"
Patricia Melzer
31. "Body Modification"
Ross Farnell
32. "Cyberculture"
Thomas Foster
33. "Retrofuturism and Steampunk"
Elizabeth Guffey and Kate C. Lemay
Part IV. Science Fiction as Worldview
34. "The Enlightenment"
Adam Roberts
35. "The Gothic"
William Hughes
36. "Darwinism"
Patrick B. Sharp
37. "Colonialism and Postcolonialism"
John Rieder
38. "Pseudoscience"
Anthony Enns
39. "Futurology"
Andrew M. Butler
40. "Posthumanism"
Colin Milburn
41. "Feminism"
Lisa Yaszek
42. "Libertarianism and Anarchism"
Neil Easterbrook
43. "Afrofuturism"
De Witt Douglas Kilgore
44. "Utopianism"
Phillip E. Wegner