Steampunk Film: A Critical Introduction is a concise and accessible
overview of steampunk's indelible impact within film, and acts as a
case study for examining the ways with which genres hybridize and
coalesce into new forms. Since the beginning of the 21st century, a
series of high-profile and big-budget films have adopted steampunk
identities to re-imagine periods of industrial development into
fantastical histories where future meets past. By calling this
growing mass-cultural fetishism for anachronistic machines into
question, this book examines how a retro-futuristic romanticism for
technology powered by cogs, pistons and steam-engines has taken
center stage in blockbuster cinema. As the first monograph to
consider cinema's unique relationship with steampunk, it places
this burgeoning genre in the context of ongoing debates within film
theory: each of which reflecting the movement's remarkable interest
in reengineering historical technologies. Rather than acting as a
niche subculture, Robbie McAllister argues that steampunk's
proliferation in mainstream filmmaking reflects a desire to
reassess contemporary relationships with technology and navigate
the intense changes that the medium itself is experiencing in the
21st century.
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