03488nam 22006493u 450 991045289100332120210107003807.01-280-87460-097866137159131-136-50028-61-136-50027-80-203-14332-9(CKB)2550000000104764(EBL)981932(OCoLC)798209483(SSID)ssj0000741844(PQKBManifestationID)12265371(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741844(PQKBWorkID)10743488(PQKB)11413363(MiAaPQ)EBC981932(EXLCZ)99255000000010476420130418d2012|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrScience Fiction[electronic resource]Hoboken Taylor and Francis20121 online resource (257 p.)Routledge Film GuidebooksDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-45810-2 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; CampSelf-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; IndexScience 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-liberalRoutledge Film GuidebooksScience fiction films -- History and criticismScience fiction filmsHistory and criticismMusic, Dance, Drama & FilmHILCCFilmHILCCElectronic books.Science fiction films -- History and criticism.Science fiction filmsHistory and criticismMusic, Dance, Drama & FilmFilm791.43/615791.43615Bould Mark858087AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910452891003321Science Fiction2184227UNINA