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Taylor & Francis Ltd Science Fiction And Cultural Theory A Reader 2015 Edition by Sherryl Vint
Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader is an essential resource for literature students studying science fiction, science and popular culture, and contemporary theory. This book combines key theories that have become touchstones for work in the field with more recent thinking to showcase how theoretical paradigms central to science fiction such as posthumanism and mediation have become central to critical theory overall in the twenty-first century.The book is divided into four parts:Gender, Technology and the BodyThe Science-Fictionalization of Everyday LifeMedia, Mediation, Science FictionPosthumanismsEach part will not only to outline the central critical trends in the study of science fiction across media but will also to show dialogue and exchange as these concepts are refined. Each section will conclude with a list of recommendations for further reading. In this volume Sherryl Vint brings together the most important critical essays and approaches to the study science fiction over the last 40 years to create an ideal resource for classrooms. Introduction: Semiotic Ghosts and Broken DreamsPart 1: Gender, Technology and the Body1. Bodies in Space: Film as Carnal Knowledge, Annette Michelson2. Typewriter, Friedrich Kittler3. Horror and the Monstrous Feminine, Barbara Creed4. Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery and Special Effects, Vivian Sobchack5. excerpts from Connected: What it Means to Live in Network Society, Steve Shaviro6. Gendering the Technological Imagination, Anne BalsamoPart 2: The Science-Fictionalization of Everyday Life7. Bloodless Transfusions, Manuel De Landa8. Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative, Susan Squier9. Bioinformatic Bodies and the Problems of 'Life Itself', Eugene Thacker10. A Monstrous Vision: Disney, Science Fiction and Cinemascope, Jay Telotte11. Everyday Nanowars: Video Games and the Crises of the Digital Battlefield, Colin Milburn12. Practicing Media Archaeology: Creative Metaphors for Remediation, Jussa ParikkaPart 3: Media, Mediation, Science Fiction13. The Videology of Science Fiction, Garrett Stewart14. The Cinema of Attractions, Tom Gunning15. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard16. On a Clear Day You Can See the Horizon of Invisibility: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production, Brooks Landon17. The Wonder Years and Beyond: 1989-1995, Michelle Pierson18. The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence, Henry JenkinsPart 4: Posthumanisms19. The Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway20. The Life Cycle of Cyborgs, N. Katherine Hayles21. The Image Virus, Scott Butkatman22. Meta(l)morphoses, Rosi Braidotti23. The Transmolecularization of [Black] Folk: Space in the Place, Sun Ra, and Afrofuturism, Nabeel Zuberi24. When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis: Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain, Susan Napier