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UNINA9910784830603321 |
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Autore |
Kitchin Rob |
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Titolo |
Lost in Space [[electronic resource] ] : Geographies of Science Fiction |
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London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-29472-1 |
9786611294724 |
1-84714-321-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Science fiction |
Literature - General |
Languages & Literatures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Lost in space; 2 The way it wasn't: alternative histories, contingent geographies; 3 Geography's conquest of history in The Diamond Age; 4 Space, technology and Neal Stephensbn's science fiction; 5 Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercy's He, She and It; 6 The subjectivity of the near future: geographical imaginings in the work of J. G. Ballard; 7 Tuning the self: city space and SF horror movies; 8 Science fiction and cinema: the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space |
9 An invention without a future, a solution without a problem: motor pirates, time machines and drunkenness on the screen10 What we can say about nature: familiar geographies, science fiction and popular physics; 11 Murray Bookchin on Mars! The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy; 12 In the belly of the monster: Frankenstein, food, factishes and fiction; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects.Lost in space brings together an international collection of |
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authors to explore the diverse geographies of spaceexploring imagination, nature, scale, geopolitics, modernity, time, identity, the body, power relations and the representation of spa |
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