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Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, cartea 53

Yael Maurer, Meyrav Koren-Kuik
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mar 2018
Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction offers an examination of the central role played by urban spaces in science fictional narratives in various media forms from the literary to the ludic to the cinematic. Our contributors reflect on the ways diverse urban scenarios are central to the narratives’ science fictional imaginary and consider the pivotal roles cityscapes play in underscoring major thematic concerns, such as political struggles, social inequality and other cultural epistemologies. The chapters in the collection are divided into three sections examining the city and the body, cities of estrangement, and cities of the imagination.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004361300
ISBN-10: 9004361308
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Consciousness, Literature and the Arts


Cuprins

AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionMeyrav Koren-Kuik and Yael Maurer

Part 1: The City and the Body

Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss UndergroundInbar KaminskyPast Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments Eduardo Barros-GrelaArchitecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body Elsa Bouet

Part 2: Cities of Estrangement

Time Travel, Dystopia, and the Manhattan Skyscraper in George Allan England’s The Last New Yorkers and Murray Leinster’s “The Runaway Skyscraper” Rosalind FurslandWires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens’ London in Cyberspace Keith Daniel HarrisCity of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction Henri-Simon Blanc-HoangSpatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson Imola Bülgözdi

Part 3: Cities of Imagination

“Divided Against Itself”: Dual Urban Chronotopes Elana GomelExperiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as ‘Citizens’ of The Hunger Games Storyworld Natalie Krikowa‘Final Men’, Racialised Fears & the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films Glen DonnarImagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series Caprica Torsten CaenersThe Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-Fictional City as a Detective Story Shawn Edrei

Notă biografică

Yael Maurer, Ph.D. (2009), Tel Aviv University, is a lecturer at the English and American Studies department at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has published The Science Fictional Dimensions of Salman Rushdie (2014) and articles on Hitchcock, Dickens and Philip Roth, among others.

Meyrav Koren-Kuik is a doctoral candidate at the Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University. Her main research areas are Victorian literature, and Science Fiction.

Recenzii

“This collection is a good addition to the discourse of understanding how setting, especially urban setting, plays an important role in how we experience sf narratives”
-Alison Fraser, Trent University, Canada in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 47.1 2020 pp. 137-140