Close Encounters - Film, Feminism, and Science Ficiton

Close Encounters was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Offers new critical approaches to science fiction as represented in film, television, fan culture, and other non-literary media. Addresses the way conventional notions of sexual difference are reworked by science fiction film. Includes the complete script of Peter Wollen's 1987 film Friendship's Death.

Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Janet Bergstrom, Roger Dadoun, Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D., Henry Jenkins III, Enno Patalas, Constance Penley, Vivian Sobchak, Lynn Spigel, and Peter Wollen.

About the author

Janet Bergstrom is a professor in the Department of Television and Film Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

Offers critical interpretations of science fiction as represented in film, television and other non-literary media. Ranging from historical analysis to psychoanalytic critiques, and from avant-garde films to television sitcoms, the book addresses science fiction in terms of "sexual difference".

Product details

• Assisted by: Janet Bergstrom (Editor), Elisabeth Lyon (Editor), Constance Penley (Editor), Lynn Spigel (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.1991
• EAN: 9780816619122
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-1912-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 455 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies