... an idea of moviegoing as spectacular escapism. This chapter explores politics and realism in Hollywood films, the emergence of films tackling social problems, science fiction films and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Eisenhower Dwight D Truman Harry S ‘Hollywood Ten...

...Scott Bukatman argues that the special effects-driven science fiction films of contemporary Hollywood are the leading edge of a shift away from the traditionally narrative-focused models of classic Hollywood and towards an immersive hyper-textuality in which the film as such is merely one part...

... Harman Graham Giggs Rebecca Bogost Ian Brooks Cleanth Kermode Frank paraphrase infans Agamben Giorgio Fynsk Christopher Böhme Jakob Hillcoat John as if Skrimshire Stefan Schaub Thomas Gaiman Neil Mallarmé Stéphane Speculative Realism Science Fiction Cormac McCarthy Graham Harman...

... Roper Patrick Leckie Ann Ancillary Justice McCarthy Cormac Boyd Brian Guattari Félix Hölderlin Friedrich Empson William Ayache Elie Taleb Nassim Nicholas Dick Philip K Miéville China Speculative Realism Science Fiction Neil Gaiman Graham Harman Quentin Meillassoux It’s the basic condition...

... Laboria Cuboniks xenofeminism Speculative Realism Science Fiction Doris Lessing Graham Harman Symbiosis How can you love anyone who is a castrated You? Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975) The previous chapters laid out a number of ways in which objects can be surprising...

... transcription Wark McKenzie Davies Stephen Gray Cecil van Beethoven Ludwig Meillassoux Quentin transcriptionocene Anthropocene Dawson Ashley Invisible Committee The Shaviro Steven McCarthy Cormac Roderick Nick Chicago Pile Scranton Roy Speculative Realism Science Fiction Kim Stanley Robinson...

... Hailsham Hooker Claire Ishiguro Kazuo Manderley Kai character Marshall George movement of feeling phenomenology Sierra Leone animal autism stories Herman David Parry Bronwyn cognitive estrangement McFarlane Anna Miller Gavin ‘phenomenological’ novel ‘the rest’ science fiction ‘syndrome...

...This chapter investigates the science fiction films of the 1950s in America. The 1950s was the decade that marked the beginning of the end for the Hollywood studio system when the oligopoly of the major studios began to break down. The alien invasion films and the science fiction/horror films...

...This chapter describes a range of films that appeared in the 1960s. It then addresses the ‘new art’ films that appeared in the late 1960s throughout the 1970s. The 1960s was a time when science fiction and science fact became remarkably intertwined, sometimes blurred, particularly within...

...This chapter reports the depiction of the masculine subject in mainstream American science fiction films from 1980–1990. The popular rebirth in the science fiction film in America results to the genre's market dominance. Star Wars and Close Encounters offer...

...This chapter explores how issues of race are played out in science fiction films. It also deals with the differences and similarities between the representations of racial issues between Euro-American films and American-produced films. Star Trek and Planet of the Apes...

...The chapter deals with the genre of science fiction (SF) as a new emerging imported genre in Arabic literature, first, through translations and adaptations, and afterward by the rising of original Arabic SF progressing toward canonization. The emergence of SF in Arabic literature is the most...

...Chapter 5 is the first of two chapters that considers law and science fiction. This chapter focuses on Alex Proyas’s cinematic rendering of the work of Isaac Asimov in the film I, Robot. Situated within the tradition of hard sci-fi that explicitly imagines a technologized...

... if, for example, the witness s challenge in Batman v Superman was staged by Luthor, so as to produce a justification for legal intervention? It is in this context that this book argues that the stories told within popular culture in particular those of speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, superheroes...

... all disciplines, the Anthropocene has severely challenged some of the fundamental ways in which literary studies are conducted. Accordingly, the chapter discusses specific genres of literature (primarily science fiction and postapocalyptic fiction) in order to examine why certain genres of literature...

... that the Spence brothers’ relationship as amateurs to this genre, in a period of Irish conflict, mirrors Hollywood’s relationship with alien-infested B-movies as cold war tensions escalated in the 1950s. cult cinema exhibition Keep Watching the Skies music recycling science fiction sci fi Spence brothers...

... Althusser Louis Roberts Adam Welcome to the Desert of the Real Žižek Slavoj Cyberphilosophy The Matrix Film and philosophy science fiction films Larry and Andy Wachowski Neo: ‘I thought it wasn't real.’ Morpheus: ‘Your mind makes it real.’ (The Matrix) I suffered for a long time...

...Science fiction films that have dramatised issues of immigration detention and deportation form the focus of this chapter, which argues that, far from being about the future, science fiction is a historiographic mode which can situate current oppressive realities in a longer history of violence...

... crime thrillers have been upgraded. This chapter analyses the interface between myth and science fiction, focusing on Mani Shankar's 2004 film Rudraksh (The Seed). Shankar's new age mythological does not cast tradition (the story of the indigenous self) and modernity...

... and revelries in virtual reality. Beyond Deleuze and Baudrillard, however, the chapter considers the crucial perspectives science fiction offers on the analysis of capitalism. abstraction becoming Deleuzian biopunk schizoanalysis Videodrome virtual reality Clockwork Orange A film Clockwork Orange A novel...