Steaming into a Victorian future [[electronic resource] ] : a steampunk anthology / / edited by Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3/8766
• Soggetto topico: Steampunk fiction - History and criticism; Steampunk culture
• Altri autori: TaddeoJulie Anne MillerCynthia J. <1958->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; P A R T I. REIMAGINING CHARACTERS/RECONFIGURING RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 1. Some Notes on the Steampunk Social Problem Novel; Chapter 2. Useful Troublemakers: Social Retrofuturism in the Steampunk Novels of Gail Carriger and Cherie Priest; Chapter 3. Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity; Chapter 4. Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica ; Chapter 5. "Anything Is Possible for a Man in a Top Hat with a Monkey with a Monocle": Remixing Steampunk in Professor Elemental's The Indifference EngineP A R T I I. REFURBISHING TIME AND PLACE; Chapter 6. "In Sum, Evil Has Prevailed": The Moral Morass of Science and Exploration in Jacques Tardi's The Arctic Marauder; Chapter 7. "Fulminations and Fulgurators": Jules Verne, Karel Zeman, and Steampunk Cinema; Chapter 8. Airships East, Zeppelins West: Steampunk's Fantastic Frontiers; Chapter 9. Enacting the Never-Was: Upcycling the Past, Present, and Future in Steampunk ; Chapter 10. Objectified and Politicized: The Dynamics of Ideology and Consumerism in Steampunk SubcultureP A R T I I I. RETROFITTING THINGS; Chapter 11. "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory": Steampunk Design and the Vision of a Victorian Future; Chapter 12. Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the History of Technology in Society; Chapter 13. Remaking the World: The Steampunk Inventor on Page and Screen; Chapter 14. Steampunk's Legacy: Collecting and Exhibiting the Future of Yesterday; Afterword: Steampunk: Looking at the Evidence; Index ; About the Editors,Contributors, and Artists
• Sommario/riassunto: <span><span><span>This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on-and interrelationship with-popular culture and the wider society.</span></span></span>
• Titolo autorizzato: Steaming into a Victorian future
• ISBN: 1-283-61796-X; 0-8108-8587-5; 9786613930415
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787717103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II