Inhabiting Ustopia : science fiction in film, performing arts, and digital media / Aparajita Nanda, Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rădulescu, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nanda, Aparajita

Grosu-Rădulescu, Lucia-Mihaela.

EBSCOhost

Series:

Numanities--arts and humanities in progress ; v. 33.

Numanities -- Arts and Humanities in Progress ; v.33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2025.

Contents:

Chapter 00. Introduction - Aparajita Nanda and Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rdulescu

Part I. Performing an Ustopian Future

Chapter 1. Back to the Future or Forward to the Past? Futurism, Transhumanism, and Transmedia in Two Ustopian Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti and Tod Machover - Alina Bottez

Chapter 2. Beyond Self-Identity and Toward Alter Ego. Transcendence in Contemporary Japanese Theater - Iryna Kastylianchanka

Chapter 3. Trans Identity and Neurodiversity in Dramatic Literature: Diego Casado Rubios millones de segundos - Lynn Deboeck

Part II. Crafting Ustopian Ecosystems

Chapter 4. Inventing the Enemy: Popular Science Fiction on Screen as Political Parables -Siddhartha Biswas

Chapter 5. The end of the world is always a local event: Dystopian Futures and Utopian Resistance in Contemporary Irish Fiction and Film - Simon Workman

Chapter 6. Fast-forward into the Future: Socioeconomic Change and Spatial Reconfigurations in Years and Years (Russell T. Davies, 2019) - Pablo Gmez-Muoz

Chapter 7. Mis-Leading Meritocracies. Segregation and Biopolitics in Brazilian Ustopias - Olivia E. Holloway

Chapter 8. Black Evermore. Racial Subjectivity, World-Building at Play, and Charting a Path from the Harlem Renaissance to Videogames through George Schuylers Black No More - Jalin Niamke Jackson

Chapter 9. The Art of Being Governed? On Failings of the Utopic Imagination - Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki

Chapter 10. Inhabiting Ustopia: Indian Science Fiction Films, PK and Anukul

Chapter 11

Beyond Stereotypes: Ms. Marvel and the Representation of Muslim Superheroine in Ustopian Narratives - Shaista Irshad

Chapter 12. Choice, Compatibility and Consent in Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya - Mukta Sharangpani

Part III. The Future is now: Contemporary Ustopians

Chapter 13. Technologies of Survivance. The Indigenous Futurist Work of Cannupa Hanska Luger and Skawennati - Preston Taylor Stone

Chapter 14. Between Ustopia and the Affective Heterotopia: Vtubing and its Fandom - Alice Teodorescu

Chapter 15. Ustopians of Today: From Fantasy to Reality, Female Cosplay in Romania - Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rdulescu.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 16, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Nanda, Aparajita Inhabiting Ustopia: Science Fiction in Film, Performing Arts, and Digital Media

ISBN:

9783032005298

3032005299

Publisher Number:

90102731937

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