| Description |
xxii, 554 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge literature companions
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Routledge companions to literature series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I HISTORY -- The Copernican revolution / Adam Roberts -- Nineteenth-century sf / Arthur B. Evans -- Fiction, 1895-1926 / John Rieder -- Sf tourism / Brooks Landon -- Film, 1895-1950 / J.P. Telotte -- Fiction, 1926-49 / Farah Mendlesohn -- Golden age comics / Marek Wasielewski -- Film and television, the 1950s / Mark Jancovich and Derek Johnston -- Fiction, 1950-63 / Rob Latham -- Film and television, 1960-80 / Peter Wright -- Fiction, 1964-79 / Helen Merrick -- Manga and anime / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Silver age comics / Jim Casey -- Film since 1980 / Sean Redmond -- Television since 1980 / Lincoln Geraghty -- Fiction, 1980-92 / Michael Levy -- Comics since the silver age / Abraham Kawa -- Fiction since 1992 / Paul Kincaid -- Part II THEORY -- Critical race theory / Isiah Lavender III -- Cultural history / Lisa Yaszek -- Fan Studies / Robin Reid -- Feminisms / Jane Donawerth -- Language and linguistics / Mark Bould -- Marxism / William J. Burling -- Nuclear Criticism / Paul Williams -- Postcolonialism / Michelle Reid -- Posthumanism and cyborg theory / Veronica Hollinger -- Postmodernism / Darren Jorgensen -- Psychoanalysis / Andrew M. Butler -- Queer theory / Wendy Gay Pearson -- Utopian studies / Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan -- Virtuality / Thomas Foster Part III ISSUES AND CHALLENGES -- Animal studies / Joan Gordon -- Design for screen sf / Piers D. Britton -- Digital games / Tanya Krzywinska and Esther McCallum-Stewart -- Empire / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. -- Environmentalism / Patrick D. Murphy -- Ethics and alterity / Neil Easterbrook -- Music / Ken McLeod -- Pseudoscience / Roger Luckhurst -- Science studies / Sherryl Vint -- Space / James Kneale -- Time, possible worlds, and counterfactuals / Matt Hills -- Young adult sf / Joe Sutliff Sanders -- Part IV SUBGENRES -- Alternative history / Karen Hellekson -- Apocalyptic sf / Aris Mousoutzanis -- Arthouse sf film / Stacey Abbott -- Blockbuster sf film / Stacey Abbott -- Dystopia / Graham J. Murphy -- Eutopia / Graham J. Murphy -- Feminist sf / Gwyneth Jones -- Future history / Andy Sawyer -- Hard sf / David N. Samuelson -- Slipstream / Victoria de Zwaan -- Space opera /Andy Sawyer -- Weird fiction / China Miéville. |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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Science fiction.
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| Added Author |
Bould, Mark.
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| ISBN |
9780415453790 |
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9780415453783 hardback alkaline paper |
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041545378X hardback alkaline paper |
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0415453798 |
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