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The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction /

Title:
The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction /
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
Part I. Science fiction as genre. Extrapolation and speculation / Brooks Landon -- Aesthetics / Peter Stockwell -- Histories / Arthur B. Evans -- Literary movements / Gary K. Wolfe -- Fandom / Farah Mendlesohn -- The marketplace / Gary Westfahl -- Pulp science fiction / Jess Nevins -- Literary science fiction / Joan Gordon -- Slipstream / Victoria de Zwaan -- The fantastic / Brian Attebery -- Genre vs. mode / Veronica Hollinger -- Part II. Science fiction as medium. Film / Mark Bould -- Radio and television / J.P. Telotte -- Animation / Paul Wells -- Art and illustration / Jerome Winter -- Comics / Corey K. Creekmur -- Video games / Paweł Frelik -- Digital arts and hypertext / James Tobias -- Music / John Cline -- Performance art / Steve Dixon -- Architecture / Nic Clear -- Theme parks / Leonie Cooper -- Part III. Science fiction as culture. The culture of science / Sherryl Vint -- Automation / Roger Luckhurst -- Military culture / Steffen Hantke -- Atomic culture and the space race / David Seed -- UFOs, scientology, and other SF religions / Gregory L. Reece -- Advertising and design / Jonathan M. Woodham -- Countercultures / Rob Latham -- Sexuality / Patricia Melzer -- Body modification / Ross Farnell -- Cyberculture / Thomas Foster -- Retrofuturism and steampunk / Elizabeth Guffey and Kate C. Lemay -- Part IV. Science fiction as worldview. The enlightenment / Adam Roberts -- The gothic / William Hughes -- Darwinism / Patrick B. Sharp -- Colonialism and postcolonialism / John Rieder -- Pseudoscience / Anthony Enns -- Futurology / Andrew M. Butler -- Posthumanism / Colin Milburn -- Feminism / Lisa Yaszek -- Libertarianism and anarchism / Neil Easterbrook -- Afrofuturism / De Witt Douglas Kilgore -- Utopianism / Phillip E. Wegner.

Online access:
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Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
PN3433.5 .O94 2014Available