1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702904603321

Titolo

Commerce Department programs to support job creation and innovation at small- and medium-sized manufacturers [[electronic resource] ] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, January 21, 2010

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. G.P.O., , 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 86 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Small business - Government policy - United States

Manufacturing industries - Government policy - United States

Industrial promotion - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 3, 2010).

Paper version available for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.

"Serial no. 111-71."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958410103321

Autore

Bould Mark

Titolo

Science fiction / / Mark Bould

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Routledge, 2012

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-87460-0

9786613715913

1-136-50028-6

1-136-50027-8

0-203-14332-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Routledge Film Guidebooks

Disciplina

791.43/615

791.43615

Soggetti

Science fiction films -- History and criticism

Science fiction films - History and criticism

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Film

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 The science in science fiction; The sound (and look) of science; The critical potential, pleasures and politics of 'bad' science; Unpicking science's self-image; The social subjectivity of (mad) scientists; The schizoid scientist, sexual terror and political complicity; Women in the lab: body parts; Women in the lab: scientists; Conclusion; 2 Sf, spectacle and self-reflexivity; Attractions; Spectacle, narrative and affect; Special effects and immersivity; The sublime; The grotesque; Camp

Self-reflexivity: inanimating the animate, animating the inanimateSelf-reflexivity: surveillance, interpellation, reification, death; Conclusion; 3 Sf, colonialism and globalisation; Sf, cinema and the colonial imagination; Sf's colonial imaginary; Post-imperial melancholy in British sf; Race and anti-imperialism in US countercultural sf; Neo-liberalism and the sf of deindustrialisation; Sf figurations of neoliberal spaces;



Representations of labour in contemporary sf; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying particular attention to the role of special effects in creating meaning and affect. It explores science fiction's evocations of the sublime, the grotesque, and the camp, and charts the ways in which the genre reproduces and articulates discourses of colonialism, imperialism and neo-liberal