Solar flares [[electronic resource] ] : science fiction in the 1970s / / Andrew M. Butler

• Autore: Butler Andrew M
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (723 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.540915
• Soggetto topico: Science fiction - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 The Ends of First Sf: Pioneers as Veterans; 2 After the New Wave: After Science Fiction?; 3 Beyond Apollo: Space Fictions after the Moon Landing; 4 Big Dumb Objects: Science Fiction as Self-Parody; 5 The Rise of Fantasy: Swords and Planets; 6 Home of the Extraterrestrial Brothers: Race and African American Science Fiction; 7 Alien Invaders: Vietnam and the Counterculture; 8 This Septic Isle: Post-Imperial Melancholy; 9 Foul Contagion Spread: Ecology and Environmentalism ; 10 Female Counter-Literature: Feminism11 Strange Bedfellows: Gay Liberation; 12 Saving the Family? Children's Fiction; 13 Eating the Audience: Blockbusters; 14 Chariots of the Gods: Pseudoscience and Parental Fears; 15 Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf; 16 Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as ""confused, self-involved, and stale."" The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Superman: The Movie. Across the political spectrum, writers perceived a series of invisible enemies: radicals addressed the ideological structur
• Titolo autorizzato: Solar flares
• ISBN: 1-78138-798-2; 1-78138-922-5; 1-84631-779-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463324603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies.