The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction / edited by Rob Latham.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Oxford handbooksPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Description: xv, 620 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199838844 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  • 0199838844 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • REF PN 3433.5 .O94 2014
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 / Pawel 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.
Summary: "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." --from inside jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Pawel 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.

"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." --from inside jacket.

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