LEADER 03600oam 2200673I 450 001 9910779248003321 005 20230124183826.0 010 $a1-280-87460-0 010 $a9786613715913 010 $a1-136-50028-6 010 $a1-136-50027-8 010 $a0-203-14332-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203143322 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104764 035 $a(EBL)981932 035 $a(OCoLC)798209483 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000741844 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12265371 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741844 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10743488 035 $a(PQKB)11413363 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC981932 035 $a(OCoLC)798613037 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104764 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScience fiction /$fMark Bould 210 1$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Film Guidebooks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-45810-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [215]-228) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aSelf-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 330 $aScience Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying particular attention to the role of special effects in creating meaning and affect. It explores science fiction's evocations of the sublime, the grotesque, and the camp, and charts the ways in which the genre reproduces and articulates discourses of colonialism, imperialism and neo-liberal 410 0$aRoutledge Film Guidebooks 606 $aScience fiction films -- History and criticism 606 $aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMusic, Dance, Drama & Film$2HILCC 606 $aFilm$2HILCC 615 4$aScience fiction films -- History and criticism. 615 0$aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aMusic, Dance, Drama & Film 615 7$aFilm 676 $a791.43/615 676 $a791.43615 700 $aBould$b Mark.$0858087 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779248003321 996 $aScience fiction$93828208 997 $aUNINA