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Lost in space : geographies of science fiction /
Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Lost in space; 2 The way it wasn''t: alternative histories, contingent geographies; 3 Geography''s conquest of history in The Diamond Age; 4 Space, technology and Neal Stephensbn''s science fiction; 5 Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercy''s He, She and It; 6 The subjectivity of the near future: geographical imaginings in the work of J.G. Ballard; 7 Tuning the self: city space and SF horror movies; 8 Science fiction and cinema: the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space.
- 9 An invention without a future, a solution without a problem: motor pirates, time machines and drunkenness on the screen10 What we can say about nature: familiar geographies, science fiction and popular physics; 11 Murray Bookchin on Mars! The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinson''s Mars trilogy; 12 In the belly of the monster: Frankenstein, food, factishes and fiction; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.