Science fiction : a guide for the perplexed

Science fiction : a guide for the perplexed / Sherryl Vint.

"Drawing on examples from literature, film and TV, this book helps students grapple with and master the often perplexing question, 'what is science fiction?'"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vint, Sherryl, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Series:Guides for the perplexed.
Subjects:
Science fiction > Study and teaching.
Science fiction, English > Study and teaching.
Science fiction, American > Study and teaching.
Science fiction films > Study and teaching.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Science fiction, American > Study and teaching
Science fiction, English > Study and teaching
Science fiction > Study and teaching
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE What is science fiction?; Origins; Genre definitions; Gernsback's new sort of magazine; Science fictions; Discussion questions; CHAPTER TWO The literature of technologically saturated societies; Science and science fiction; Hard sf; Campbell's Golden Age; Science and gender; Discussion questions; CHAPTER THREE Cognitive estrangement; Cognition versus spectacle; The limits of cognitive estrangement; Science fiction as critical theory; Discussion questions; CHAPTER FOUR The megatext; Robots in the megatext.
  • Parabolic narrativeAlien invasion in the megatext; Megatext as dialectic; Discussion questions; CHAPTER FIVE Speculative fiction; The new wave; Dangerous technoculture; Expanding genre boundaries; Expanding genre boundaries; Remaking human potentialities; Discussion questions; CHAPTER SIX Communities of practice; Material cultures of science fiction; Cyberspace and cyberpunk; Posthuman life and singularity fiction; Science fiction as "fact"; Fan culture as critic; Discussion questions; CHAPTER SEVEN The literature of ideas; Feminist science fiction; Queer science fiction.
  • Race and ethnicity in science fictionDiscussion questions; CHAPTER EIGHT The literature of change; Philosophical change; Social change; Technological change; Changing aesthetic tradition; Discussion questions; CHAPTER NINE Science fictionality; Living in a science fiction world; The persistence of science fiction; Discussion questions; CHRONOLOGY; NOTES; FURTHER READING; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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