Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century - Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns

This book critically analyses the role of transnational interactions and cosmopolitan ideals in the science fiction cinemas of twenty-first century.

List of contents

Introduction: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns
1. Systemic Dystopias through a Cosmopolitan Lens: Contesting Global Neoliberalism
2. Greening Apocalypse: Eco-Conscious Disaster and the Biopolitics of Climate Change
3. Love for the Alien Same: Interplanetary Romance and Kinship as Harbingers of Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism
4. The Cosmopolitan Potential of Connections across Time and Space
Conclusion

About the author

Pablo Gómez-Muñoz is Assistant Professor of English and Film at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). His research interests are transnational cinema, science fiction, borders, cosmopolitanism, globalization, precarity, and spectacle. His work has been published in journals such as Geopolitics, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Atlantis and volumes such as Making Sense of Popular Culture and Frontières au Cinéma.

Summary

This book critically analyses the role of transnational interactions and cosmopolitan ideals in the science fiction cinemas of twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Pablo (Faculty of Arts Gomez-Munoz, Pablo Gómez-Muñoz, Pablo Gomez (Faculty of Arts Munoz, Pablo Gómez Muñoz
• Assisted by: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (Editor of the series), Taryne Jade Taylor (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367715328
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71532-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Studies in Global Genre Fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Dystopian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, ART / Film & Video, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism