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Offers new critical approaches to science fiction as represented in film, television, fan culture, and other non-literary media. Addresses the way conventional notions of sexual difference are reworked by science fiction film. Includes the complete script of Peter Wollen's 1987 film Friendship's Death.

Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Janet Bergstrom, Roger Dadoun, Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D., Henry Jenkins III, Enno Patalas, Constance Penley, Vivian Sobchak, Lynn Spigel, and Peter Wollen.

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Offers critical interpretations of science fiction as represented in film, television and other non-literary media. Ranging from historical analysis to psychoanalytic critiques, and from avant-garde films to television sitcoms, the book addresses science fiction in terms of "sexual difference".
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Child/alien/father - patriarchal crisis and generic exchange, Vivian Sobchack; androids and androgyny, Janet Bergstrom; time travel, primal scene, and the critical dystopia, Constance Penley; reimagining the gargoyle - psychoanalytic notes on "Alien", Harvey R.Greenberg; ideal Hadaly on Villiers's "The Future Eve", Raymond Bellour; "Metropolis" - mother-city, "Mittler"and Hitler, Roger Dadoun; "Metropolis" scene 103, Enno Patalas; "Star Trek" rerun, reread, rewritten - fan writing as textual poaching, Henry Jenkins III; from domestic space to outer space - the 1960's fantastic family sit-com, Lynn Spigel; friendship's death, Peter Wollen.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780816619122
Publisert
1991-01-11
Utgiver
University of Minnesota Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
01, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
310

Biografisk notat

Janet Bergstrom is a professor in the Department of Television and Film Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.