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The new Routledge companion to science fiction.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bould, Mark.
- Series:
- Routledge Literature Companions Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 515 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2024 / edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler and Sherryl Vint.
- Summary:
- "The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years. Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganizes historical coverage of the genre to emphasise new geographical areas of cultural production and the growing importance of media beyond print. It also updates and expands the range of frameworks that are relevant to the study of science fiction. The periodisation has been reframed to include new chapters focusing on science fiction produced outside the Anglophone context, including South Asian, Latin American, Chinese and African diasporic science fiction. The contributors use both well- established critical and theoretical approaches and embrace a range of new ones, including biopolitics, climate crisis, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, energy humanities, game studies, medical humanities, new materialisms and sonic studies. This book is an invaluable resource for students and established scholars seeking to understand the vast range of engagements with science fiction in scholarship today."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Works cited
- PART I Science Fiction Histories
- 1 North African, Middle Eastern, Arabic and Diasporic Science Fiction
- Introduction: Locating Arab Sf in Time, Space and Place
- Fantastical Centres of Gravity
- Space: Inner Space, Outer Space, Astrophobia
- Nation: 'Now It's the Space Race for Skyscrapers' (al-Maria Qtd in Orton)
- Future: 'Palestine Is a Futurism' (Tbakhi N.p.)
- In Conclusion: An Other to Realism
- Works Cited
- 2 The Copernican Revolution
- What Was the Copernican Revolution?
- Seventeenth-century Interplanetary Tales
- Time
- Politics
- Conclusion
- 3 Indigenous Futurisms
- Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Aesthetics
- Indigenous Futurity as Political Praxis
- 4 Art as Science Fiction
- Industrial Art: Sublimity, 1766-1850
- Imperial Art: Colour Experiments, 1850-1900
- Modern Movements: Time, Space and the Machine, 1900-45
- Cold War Art: Machine Images, 1945-90
- Post-colonial Art: New Cosmologies, 1990-2114
- 5 Nineteenth-Century Western Science Fiction
- 6 Latin American Science Fiction
- 7 Russian-Language Science Fiction
- Tsarist-era Sf: 1784-1917
- Early Soviet Sf: 1918-27
- Stalinist-era Soviet Sf: 1928-55
- Thaw-era Soviet Sf: 1956-65
- Stagnation-era Soviet Sf: 1966-85
- Glasnost'-era Soviet Sf: 1986-91
- Post-soviet Sf: After 1991
- 8 South Asian Science Fiction
- 9 Afrodiasporic Speculative Fiction
- All Afro-Everything
- From Ancestors to Futures
- 10 Anglophone Print Fiction: Children's and Young Adult
- A Brief History of Primary Sf
- A Brief History of YASF
- Critical Concerns.
- Recent Directions in YASF and Primary Sf
- 11 Afrofuturism
- Alienation and Estrangement
- Contesting the Future
- Revisiting and Revising the Past
- New Conceptions of Identity
- In Lieu of a Conclusion: Notes On Afrofuturism's Future
- 12 Science Fiction Illustration
- Definitions and Historiographies
- Form and Function
- Typical Techniques
- Economic Factors: Boom, Bust, Marginalisation, Then Repeat
- 13 Japanese Science Fiction
- Scientific Nationalism
- From Kagaku Shosetsu to Sf
- Animated Bodies
- 14 Science Fiction Film, 1895-1950
- 15 Chinese Science Fiction
- 16 Anglophone Print Fiction: The Pulps to the New Wave
- 17 Anglophone Science Fiction Fandoms, 1920s-2020s
- 18 Science Fiction Theatre
- Twentieth-century Sf Theatre
- Twenty-first Century Sf Theatre
- Afrofuturist Theatre and Performance
- 19 Radio and Podcasts
- Radio, Sound and Narrative
- Sf Radio in the United States
- Sf Radio in the United Kingdom
- Sf Podcasts
- 20 Comics From the 1930s to the 1960s
- 21 Science Fiction Film and Television: The 1950s to the 1970s
- Introduction: Disaster, Death and Despair
- Disaster in the 1950s
- Death in the 1960s
- Despair in the 1970s
- Work Cited
- 22 Video, Installation Art and Short Science Fiction Film
- 23 Anglophone Print Fiction: The New Wave to the New Millennium
- The New Wave
- Style and Substance
- Politics and Ideologies
- Technology and Beyond
- Cyberpunk and Its Contemporaries
- Punk and Other Aesthetics of Postmodernity
- Speculative Biopolitics and Leftist Critique
- Technocultural Transformations
- 24 Comics Since the Late 1960s
- Works Cited.
- 25 Transmedia and Franchise Science Fiction
- The Star Wars Event: Transmedia Storytelling Takes Flight
- The Political Economy of Transmedia Franchising
- Transmedia Franchising Comes of Age: Marvel Superheroes in the Age of Disney
- Disney's Competition: DC, Star Trek and the Lego-Verse
- 26 Science Fiction Film and Television: The 1980s and 1990s
- An Expanded Universe: Industries, Technologies and Aesthetics
- Technoscience
- Time Travels
- Alien Encounters
- Dystopias and Post-Apocalyptic Futures
- Into the 21st Century
- 27 South Korean Science Fiction
- Protest Sf
- Post-IMF Sf
- Feminist and Queer Sf
- 28 Twenty-First Century Film
- 29 Twenty-First Century Television
- Realities, Conspiracies, Catastrophes
- More-than-human Protagonists in Near-Futures
- Invasions, Empires, the New Space Age
- The Utopian, the Strange, the Visionary
- 30 Anglophone Print Fiction: The New Millennium
- 31 Diasporic Latinx Futurisms
- Defining Latinx Futurisms
- Four Tenets of Latinx Futurisms
- Indigenous Science and Traditional Knowledge in Latinx Futurisms
- PART II Science Fiction Praxis
- 32 Advertising, Prototyping and Silicon Valley Culture
- Advertising
- Prototyping
- Silicon Valley Culture
- 33 Alternate History
- 34 Animal Studies
- 35 Biopolitics
- Foucault and the Order of Biopolitical Governance
- Agamben and Biopolitical Fractures of Modernity
- Esposito and the Autoimmune Disorder
- Biopolitical Elision, Decolonial Critique
- 36 Climate Crisis and Environmental Humanities
- 37 Critical Ethnic Studies
- Mediating Late Capitalism
- Case Study: Asian American Sf
- 38 Digital Cultures.
- Theorising Digital Cultures
- Turning Into Data
- Radicalisation and Disinformation
- 39 Disability Studies
- Disability and Sf
- Why a Disability Perspective On Sf?
- Conceptualising the Future: Medical and Technological Cures
- Reading the Absence
- Acknowledgments
- 40 DIY Science Fiction
- Theorising DIY Sf
- DIY Fan Films
- DIY Trek
- Original DIY Sf
- 41 Economics and Financialisation
- The Financial Turn and Financial Sf
- Speculative Finance Vs. Speculative Fiction
- Financialisation and Debt
- Sf, Algorithmic AI and Surveillance Capitalism
- Sf as a Financial Instrument
- Conclusion: Sf, Finance, Sabotage and Utopian Recuperation
- 42 Empire
- 43 Energy Humanities
- 44 Feminisms
- Pre-nineteenth Century English Feminism, Sf and Utopias
- US Feminism and Utopian Sf, 1820-1920
- US Feminism(s), Women's Activism and Women's Pulp Sf, 1920-1960
- US Women's Liberation Movement and Prominent Feminist Sf, 1960-80
- Standpoint, Post-Structural, Intersectional, Third Wave Feminism(s) and Cyborg Feminist Sf, 1980s-2000
- Continuing Waves, Lengthening Strands, and Diverse Feminist Sf, 2000-present
- 45 Game Studies
- Affective Science Fictions
- Modularity of Sf
- Worldbuilding
- Spatiality
- Procedurality
- 46 Geography, Urban Design and Architecture
- The Planetary
- The City
- The Neighbourhood
- The Building
- The Room
- The Doorway
- 47 Marxism
- Marxism(s) and Literature(s)
- Marxist Sf
- 48 Medical Humanities
- Biomedical Novums
- Looking 'Into' and 'At' the Medical Future
- Illness Narratives and Disability Studies
- 49 New Materialism
- 50 Post/trans/human.
- Critical Posthumanism
- Transhumanism
- The Control Problem
- Posthumanism in the Anthropocene
- Critical Transhumanism
- 51 Queer and Trans Theory
- Introduction: Science Fiction Is Queer Theory?
- Queer and Trans Worldbuilding as Collective Performance
- Undoing Human Nature
- Watery Kindred
- 52 Science Fiction Tourism
- Space Tourism
- A Brief History of Sf Tourism
- Historical and Cultural Destinations for Sf Tourism
- World's Fairs
- Coney Island and Its Successors
- Dime Museums
- The Future Now: Closer to Home
- 53 Social Activism and Science Fiction
- 54 Sonic Studies
- 55 Utopian Studies
- Colonising Utopia
- Eugenic Perfection
- An Ongoing Legacy
- Utopianism's Alternate Histories
- Beyond the Pale
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781040043080
- 1040043089
- 9781003140269
- 1003140262
- 9781040042953 (electronic book)
- 1040042953
- OCLC:
- 1438670059
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