Science fiction and cultural theory
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Sherryl Vint
Series: Routledge literature readers; Routledge literature readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781138814981; 9781138814998
Subjects: Science fiction; History and criticism; Influence; Study and teaching; Literature and society
Description: Considered an essential resource for 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 posithumanism and mediation have become central to critical theory overall in the twenty-first century. Book is divided into four sections: Gender, technology and the body; The science-fictionalization of everyday life; Media, mediation, science fiction; Posthumanisms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bodies in space : film as "carnal knowledge" (1969) / Annette Michelson; title: Typewriter (1986) / Friedrich Kittler; title: Alien and the monstrous-feminine (1990) / Barbara Creed; title: Scary women : cinema, surgery, and special effects (1999) / Vivian Sobchack; title: Connected; or what it means to live in the network society (2003) / Steven Shaviro; title: Gendering the technological imagination (2011) / Anne Balsamo; title: Bloodless transfusion (1991) / Manuel De Landa; title: Transplant medicine and transformative narrative (2004) / Susan Squier; title: Bioinformatic bodies and the problem of "life itself" (2005) / Eugene Thacker; title: A monstrous vision : Disney, science fiction, ad CinemaScope (2008) / J.P. Telotte; title: Have nanosuit : will travel : video games and the crisis of the digital battlefield (2010) / Colin Milburn; title: Practising media archaeology : creative methodologies for remediation (2012) / Jussi Parikka; title: The "videology" of science fiction (1985) / Garrett Stewart; title: The cinema of attraction : early film, its spectator and the avant-garde (1986) / Tom Gunning; title: The ecstasy of communication (1988) / Jean Baudrillard (translated by John Johnston); title: On a clar day you can see the horizon of invisibility : rethinking science fiction film in the age of electronic (re)production (1992) / Brooks Landon; title: The wonder years and beyond, 1989-1995 (2002) / Michelle Pierson; title: The cultural ogic of media convergence (2004) / Henry Jenkins; title: A cyborg manifesto : science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century (1991) / Donna Haraway; title: The life cycle of cyborgs : writing the posthuman (1995) / N. Katherine Hayles; title: The image virus (1993) / Scott Bukatman; title: Meta(l)morphoses (1997) / Rosi Braidotti; title: The transmolecularization of (black) folk : Space is the Place, Sun Ra and Afrofuturism (2004) / Nabeel Zuberi; title: When the machines stop : fantasy, reality, and terminal identity in Neon Genesis : Evangelion and Serial Experiments : Lain (2007) / Susan J. Napier.