Solar Flares - Science Fiction in the 1970s

An engaging and accessible book looking at 1970s sf writing, film and television - alongside music and architecture - to reclaim the decade as a crucial period in the history of science fiction.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Prologue 1. The Ends of First Sf: Pioneers as Veterans 2. After the New Wave: After Science Fiction? 3. Beyond Apollo: Space Fictions after the Moon Landing 4. Big Dumb Objects: Science Fiction as Self-Parody 5. The Rise of Fantasy: Swords and Planets 6. Home of the Extraterrestrial Brothers: Race and African American Science Fiction 7. Alien Invaders: Vietnam and the Counterculture 8. This Septic Isle: Post-Imperial Melancholy 9. Foul Contagion Spread: Ecology and Environmentalism 10. Female Counter-Literature: Feninism 11. Strange Bedfollows: Gay Liberation 12. Saving the Family: Children's Fiction 13. Eating the Audience: Blockbusters 14. Chariots of the Gods: Rseudoscience and Parental Fears 15. Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf 16. Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism Epilogue Bibliography Index

About the author

Andrew M. Butler is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christchurch University. He is the author and editor of many books including (as co-editor) The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (Routledge, 2009) and Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (Routledge, 2009).

Summary

An engaging and accessible book looking at 1970s sf writing, film and television – alongside music and architecture – to reclaim the decade as a crucial period in the history of science fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew M Butler, Andrew M. Butler, Andrew M. (Canterbury Christ Church Univer Butler, Andrew M. (Canterbury Christ Church University (United Kingdom)) Butler, Andrew M. (Canterbury Christ Church University) Butler
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2014
• EAN: 9781781381175
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-117-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies; Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies; Liverpool Science Fiction Text
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies