Science Fiction

In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more..

In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more..

Charting the rich and varied landscape of science fiction in a collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures who have shaped and defined the genre, diverse groups within the science fiction community are represented, from novelists and film makers to comic book and television..

Charting the rich and varied landscape of science fiction in a collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures who have shaped and defined the genre, diverse groups within the science fiction community are represented, from novelists and film makers to comic book and television..

This book focusses on gender and race, and their representation in American SF, from the 19C to the present, and in forms including literature and film. It explores how SF provides a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF lingu..

This book focusses on gender and race, and their representation in American SF, from the 19C to the present, and in forms including literature and film. It explores how SF provides a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF lingu..

Writings include The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man. Volume covers the period 1895-1940. Extras: Appendices list additional critical articles and a full chronology of Wells' published books...

This innovative reading of Primo Levi’s work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discussion spans the range of Levi’s works — from testimony to journalism, from essays to science fiction stories — identifying and tracing multiple narratives..

This book illuminates the racialized nature of 21st-C Western popular culture by studying how discourses of race circulate in popular Fantasy. It examines the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege enacted within creative works and surrounding communities. An interdisciplinary approach, dr..

This book illuminates the racialized nature of 21st-C Western popular culture by studying how discourses of race circulate in popular Fantasy. It examines the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege enacted within creative works and surrounding communities. An interdisciplinary approach, dr..

This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from history to the (in this case media) environment. It takes the robot as its subject because it has attained a status that resonates not only with some of the key conce..

This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from history to the (in this case media) environment. It takes the robot as its subject because it has attained a status that resonates not only with some of the key conce..