The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 May 2023
- ISBN 9780197557723
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 183x241x45 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 44 b&w halftones 515
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Short description:
Essays in The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas address the impact of new theoretical approaches and recent cultural attitudes on a changing science fiction cinema. Essay topics include (but are not limited to) Afrofuturism, biopunk science fiction, feminist science fiction, heterotopic spaces, steampunk cinema, ethno-Gothic films, superhero cinema, queer theory, and posthumanism.
MoreLong description:
The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction. In contemporary film, science fiction is a key locus both for displaying and for imaginatively addressing social and cultural issues. Today, popular modes of this cinema have transformed the nature of the genre, directly incorporating pressing concerns about racial tensions, the environment, and gender inequality, among other cultural and social issues. This volume defines these new modes as slant forms of science fiction, changing a genre most often associated with the icons of science and technology into a substantially new range of science fiction cinemas.
This handbook presents two groups of essays, both of which explore what these new science fiction cinemas address and how viewers can better navigate these films. The first group of essays provides a contextual and historical definition for a selection of slant types, featuring analyses of examples such as Afrofuturism, biopunk cinema, feminist science fiction, heterotopic spaces, and superhero cinema. The second group offers a broader theoretical vantage on some of the critical and revolutionary slants informing contemporary science fiction, including topics like bioethics, cult behaviors, gender and queer theory, and posthumanism. From exploring new theoretical approaches to highlighting new cultural attitudes, this volume presents the science fiction cinema not only as a flexible and adaptable process, but also as a reflection of contemporary culture's own evolution.
...future researchers can build on many ofthe great ideas explored in this Oxford Handbook.
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction
1. Slant Screens, Slant Screenings, J. P. Telotte
II. The Slant Screens of New Science Fiction Cinema
2. Afrofuturist Cinema, De Witt Douglas Kilgore
3. Biopunk, Lars Schmeink
4. Cli-Fi Film, Mark Bould
5. Ethno-Gothic Cinema, Susana Morris
6. Femspec Science Fiction, Susan George
7. Heterotopias, Joan Gordon
8. Kaiju Film, Bradley Schauer
9. Magical Realism Science Fiction, Gerald Duchovnay
10. Steampunk, Thomas Lamarre
11. Superhero Science Fiction, Angela Ndalianis
III. New Slants on the Science Fiction Film
12. The Anthropocene/Ecosophy, Gerry Canavan
13. Bioethics/Biopolitics, Sherryl Vint
14. Cult Behaviors, Jeffrey Weinstock
15. Digital Science Fictions, Charles Tryon
16. Feminist Materialism, Frances McDonald
17. Object-Oriented Ontology, Levi R. Bryant
18. Posthumanism, J. P. Telotte
19. Queer Cinema, Catherine Constable and Matt Denny
20. Utopianism, Caroline Edwards
IV. A Select Slant Screens Filmography
