Details

Subject(s)

• Science fiction—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Latham, Rob, 1959- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Literary criticism [Browse]
• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks of literature. [More in this series]

Summary note

This title attempts to descry the historical and cultural contours of SF in the wake of technoculture studies. Rather than treating the genre as an isolated aesthetic formation, it examines SF's many lines of cross-pollination with technocultural realities since its inception in the nineteenth century, showing how SF's unique history and subcultural identity has been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science andtechnology.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 30, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• Part I. Science fiction as genre. Extrapolation and speculation / Brooks Landon
• Aesthetics / Peter Stockwell
• Histories / Arthur B. Evans
• Literary movements / Gary K. Wolfe
• Fandom / Farah Mendlesohn
• The marketplace / Gary Westfahl
• Pulp science fiction / Jess Nevins
• Literary science fiction / Joan Gordon
• Slipstream / Victoria de Zwaan
• The fantastic / Brian Attebery
• Genre vs. mode / Veronica Hollinger
• Part II. Science fiction as medium. Film / Mark Bould
• Radio and television / J.P. Telotte
• Animation / Paul Wells
• Art and illustration / Jerome Winter
• Comics / Corey K. Creekmur
• Video games / Paweł Frelik
• Digital arts and hypertext / James Tobias
• Music / John Cline
• Performance art / Steve Dixon
• Architecture / Nic Clear
• Theme parks / Leonie Cooper
• Part III. Science fiction as culture. The culture of science / Sherryl Vint
• Automation / Roger Luckhurst
• Military culture / Steffen Hantke
• Atomic culture and the space race / David Seed
• UFOs, scientology, and other SF religions / Gregory L. Reece
• Advertising and design / Jonathan M. Woodham
• Countercultures / Rob Latham
• Sexuality / Patricia Melzer
• Body modification / Ross Farnell
• Cyberculture / Thomas Foster
• Retrofuturism and steampunk / Elizabeth Guffey and Kate C. Lemay
• Part IV. Science fiction as worldview. The enlightenment / Adam Roberts
• The gothic / William Hughes
• Darwinism / Patrick B. Sharp
• Colonialism and postcolonialism / John Rieder
• Pseudoscience / Anthony Enns
• Futurology / Andrew M. Butler
• Posthumanism / Colin Milburn
• Feminism / Lisa Yaszek
• Libertarianism and anarchism / Neil Easterbrook
• Afrofuturism / De Witt Douglas Kilgore
• Utopianism / Phillip E. Wegner.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of science fiction
• Science fiction

ISBN

• 9780199838851
• 0199838852
• 9780199984664
• 0199984662

OCLC

893629586

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