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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.
List 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
About the author
J. P. Telotte is Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the co-editor of the journal Post Script, and has published widely on film and television, with a special emphasis on science fiction media. His most recent publications include Robot Ecology, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination, and Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps.
Summary
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.
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...future researchers can build on many ofthe great ideas explored in this Oxford Handbook.
