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-assesses in SF media by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world.
-connects established topics in gender studies and science fiction
studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media.
challenges conventional generic boundaries; providing new ways of
approaching familiar texts; recovering lost artists and introducing
new ones; -shows how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations
inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political
practice. -engages with current political concenrs and connects the
rise of hate-based politics to SF movements -a range of both
emerging and established names in media, literature, and cultural
studies engage with a huge diversity of topics
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers
critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American
narratives. Contributors take either a national or transnational
approach, and stretch the geographic and conceptual boundaries of
science fiction cinema. Recurrent themes include genre discussions,
engagement with Hollywood, and the international subgenre of
science fiction parody. Chapters contain a variety of perspectives
and styles: from gender and race studies, to the eco-critical, and
the post-colonial; from the avant-garde, to socialist realism, and
the Hammer film. Edited by Sonja Fritzsche, the collection contains
fourteen chapters written by specialists from around the world.
Film traditions represented include Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
Cameroon, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India,
Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the
United States. There is also a chapter on digital shorts. From the
dinosaur myth that became Godzilla to Brazilian science fiction
comedy, from China's Death Ray to Kenya's Pumzi, this book will
broaden the horizons of scholars and students of science fiction.
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers
critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American
narratives. Contributors take either a national or transnational
approach, and stretch the geographic and conceptual boundaries of
science fiction cinema. Recurrent themes include genre discussions,
engagement with Hollywood, and the international subgenre of
science fiction parody. Chapters contain a variety of perspectives
and styles: from gender and race studies, to the eco-critical, and
the post-colonial; from the avant-garde, to socialist realism, and
the Hammer film. Edited by Sonja Fritzsche, the collection contains
fourteen chapters written by specialists from around the world.
Film traditions represented include Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
Cameroon, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India,
Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the
United States. There is also a chapter on digital shorts. From the
dinosaur myth that became Godzilla to Brazilian science fiction
comedy, from China's Death Ray to Kenya's Pumzi, this book will
broaden the horizons of scholars and students of science fiction.
The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative
fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative
fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from
Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged
following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean,
Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an
introduction by an expert in the language's speculative fiction
tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down
each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and
horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most
interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an
analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given
language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been
translated into English. An informative and one-of-a-kind guide,
Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of
speculative fiction's new globalized era.
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a
subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's
most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the
party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a
corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East
German communism. This study is an introduction to East German
science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science
fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the
country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to
understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism,
censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An indepth
discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements
of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies,
ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the
relation between literature and science. Through a close textual
analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East
German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable
source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the
country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and
developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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