Science Fantasy - Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film

This book explores science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better future through memories and explores uncharted territories where science and imagination intersect.

List of contents

Editors' Foreword: Cenk Tan, Elçin Parçaölu and Nazan Y¿ld¿z Çiçekçi
Introduction: Fantasy and Science Fiction: "A Rationalized Fantasy", Nazan Y¿ld¿z Çiçekçi
Chapter One: Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End: A Critique of Free Will, Determinism and Predestination, Cenk Tan
Chapter Two: Science Undertakes the Task: An Analysis of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children through Science Fantasy, Elçin Parçaölu
Chapter Three: Andre Norton's Androgynous Equality and Subverting Gender Roles and
Hue of Witchcraft in Witch World, Nazan Y¿ld¿z Çiçekçi
Chapter Four: In the Shadow of the Past and of the Source Text: I, Frankenstein as Adaptation and Americanization, Defne Ersin Tutan
Chapter Five: From Mighty Warrior to Goofy Dad: Exploring Masculinities in the Thor Franchise, Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos
Chapter Six: Mars and the Martians as Others in Philip K. Dick's Story and its Film Adaptation, Ercan Gürova
Chapter Seven: Reimagining Marronage in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber, Keisha Allan
Chapter Eight: Mothering in the Multiverse: Representations of Shifting Maternal Identities in Popular Science Fiction Films, Sarah Young
Chapter Nine: The Science Fantasy of Michael Moorcock, Karol Jaroszewski
Chapter Ten: Conscious Counter-Reality: Lexical Cohesion and Anti-Language in Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Michael Arthur Soares
Chapter Eleven: Exploring Feminist Utopia: A Neo-Realist Analysis of The Feminist Utopia Project, Gül Varl¿ Karaarslan
About the Contributors

About the author

Cenk Tan is lecturer doctor at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey.
Nazan Y¿ld¿z Çiçekçi is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey.
Elçin Parçaölu is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey.

Product details

• Authors: Cenk Parcaoglu Tan
• Assisted by: Elç¿n Parçao¿lu (Editor), Elcin Parcaoglu (Editor), Elçin Parçaoglu (Editor), Cenk Tan (Editor), Nazan Y¿ld¿z Ç¿çekç¿ (Editor), Nazan Yildiz Cicekci (Editor), Nazan Yildiz Çiçekçi (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2024
• EAN: 9781666926361
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-636-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Science Fiction, Fantasy, English, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Fantasy / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror, Film, TV & radio, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres, FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance, Theater & Musicals, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, FICTION / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio