Title:
The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction / edited by Rob Latham.
Author:
Latham, Rob, 1959- editor.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Call Number:
PN3433.5 .O94 2014
Abstract:
"The Handbook begins with a focus on questions of genre, covering topics such as critical history, keywords, narrative, the fantastic, and fandom. A subsequent section on media engages with film, television, comics, architecture, music, video games, and more. The genre's role in the convergence of art and everyday life animates a third section, which addresses topics such as UFOs, the Atomic Era, the Space Race between the US and USSR, organized religion, automation, the military, sexuality, steampunk, and retrofuturism. The final section on worldviews features perspectives on science fiction's relationship to the gothic, evolution, colonialism, feminism, afrofuturism, utopianism, and posthumanism."--Inside jacket.
ISBN:
9780199838844
Series:
Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xv, 620 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Science fiction as genre. Extrapolation and speculation / Aesthetics / Histories / Literary movements / Fandom / The marketplace / Pulp science fiction / Literary science fiction / Slipstream / The fantastic / Genre vs. mode / Science fiction as medium. Film / Radio and television / Animation / Art and illustration / Comics / Video games / Digital arts and hypertext / Music / Performance art / Architecture / Theme parks / The culture of science / Automation / Military culture / Atomic culture and the space race / UFOs, scientology, and other SF religions / Advertising and design / Countercultures / Sexuality / Body modification / Cyberculture / Retrofuturism and steampunk / Science fiction as worldview. The enlightenment / The gothic / Darwinism / Colonialism and postcolonialism / Pseudoscience / Futurology / Posthumanism / Feminism / Libertarianism and anarchism / Afrofuturism / Utopianism
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