Fantastic Cities : American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror /

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"Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American ci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Brandt, Stefan L., 1976- (Editor ), Fuchs, Michael, 1981- (Editor ), Rabitsch, Stefan, 1983- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Science fiction.
Public spaces in literature.
Horror tales.
Future, The, in literature.
Fantasy fiction.
Cities and towns in literature.
Fantasy fiction > History and criticism.
Horror tales > History and criticism.
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • FANTASTIC CITIES
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Section I: Imagining Fantastic Cities
  • Imagining Gotham: Hard Knowledge in a Soft City
  • "Whither Mankind?" The Fantastic Meets the Frontier in The Phantom Empire
  • Cities and Communities: The Urban Vision of Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Section II: Picturing the End of the Urban World
  • The Banality of the Apocalypse: Colson Whitehead's Necropolis and Mirthless Parody
  • Cities of the Dead: Urban Vampires in Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
  • Confronting Race and Racism in the Post-Apocalyptic American City
  • The Water Apocalypse: Utopian Desert Venice Cities and Arcologies in Southwestern Dystopian Fiction
  • "It's Not Good Here Anymore": Nuclear Survival and New York City's Space in Kenny Scharf's Videos
  • Section III: Freedom and Restrictions in the Fantastic City
  • Sylvester Stallone and Urban Order in the 1980s and 1990s: Gendering the City in Demolition Man and Judge Dredd
  • "We Speak Another Language Here": Samuel Delany's Dhalgren and the City of Folly
  • Imagining Digital Cities: Freedom and (Non-)Human Agency in Representations of Virtual Realities
  • Sleep Dealer
  • or, Tijuana, Ciudad del Futuro
  • Section IV: The City and Its Environment(s)
  • Terraforming and the City
  • Olympia, Wilderness, and Consumption in Laird Barron's Old Leech Cycle
  • Ecological Plant-Based Urban Planning Makes Eleanor Cameron's The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet Real
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors

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