Solar flares : science fiction in the 1970s /
Solar Flares examines the ways in which science fiction confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sci-fi blockbuster, children's sci-fi, pseudoscience, and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delaney, and Octavia But...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
43. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The ends of first SF : pioneers as veterans
- After the new wave : after science fiction?
- Beyond Apollo : space fictions after the moon landing
- Big dumb objects : science fiction as self-parody
- The rise of fantasy : swords and planets
- Home of the extraterrestrial brothers : race and African American science fiction
- Alien invaders : Vietnam and the counterculture
- This septic isle : post-imperial melancholy
- Foul contagion spread : ecology and environmentalism
- Female counter-literature : feminism
- Strange bedfellows : gay liberation
- Saving the family? Children's fiction
- Eating the audience : blockbusters
- Chariots of the gods : pseudoscience and parental fears
- Towers of Babel : the architecture of SF
- Ruptures : metafiction and postmodernism.