LEADER 04391nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910817363303321 005 20230126212124.0 010 $a0-292-79451-7 024 7 $a10.7560/716971 035 $a(CKB)1000000000533882 035 $a(OCoLC)655213879 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245756 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000112918 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129830 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112918 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10097666 035 $a(PQKB)10786919 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443274 035 $a(OCoLC)234190878 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2455 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443274 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245756 035 $a(DE-B1597)588444 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944676 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794511 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000533882 100 $a20070810d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 181 $csti$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlack space $eimagining race in science fiction film /$fAdilifu Nama 205 $aFirst edition 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$aPrint version: Nama, Adilifu, 1969- Black space. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008 9780292716971 0292716974 (DLC) 2007033323 (OCoLC)166255074 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index. 327 $aStructured absence and token presence -- Bad blood : fear of racial contamination -- The Black body : figures of distortion -- Humans unite! Race, class, and postindustrial aliens -- White narratives, black allegories -- Subverting the genre : the mothership connection. 330 $aScience fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues of concern in our own society. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan's Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report, Black Space offers a thorough-going investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness. Setting his study against the backdrop of America's ongoing racial struggles and complex socioeconomic histories, Adilifu Nama pursues a number of themes in Black Space. They include the structured absence/token presence of blacks in SF film; racial contamination and racial paranoia; the traumatized black body as the ultimate signifier of difference, alienness, and "otherness"; the use of class and economic issues to subsume race as an issue; the racially subversive pleasures and allegories encoded in some mainstream SF films; and the ways in which independent and extra-filmic productions are subverting the SF genre of Hollywood filmmaking. The first book-length study of African American representation in science fiction film, Black Space demonstrates that SF cinema has become an important field of racial analysis, a site where definitions of race can be contested and post-civil rights race relations (re)imagined. 606 $aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBlack people in motion pictures 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS$xFilm & Video$xReference$2bisacsh 606 $aAfrican Americans in motion pictures$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00799733 606 $aScience fiction films$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01108616 615 0$aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBlack people in motion pictures. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS$xFilm & Video$xReference. 615 7$aAfrican Americans in motion pictures. 615 7$aScience fiction films. 676 $a791.43/615 700 $aNama$b Adilifu$f1969-$01088667 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817363303321 996 $aBlack space$93975600 997 $aUNINA