The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-69053-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1094 g

Reihe: Routledge Literature Companions

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years.

Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to emphasise new geographical areas of cultural production and the growing importance of media beyond print. It also updates and expands the range of frameworks that are relevant to the study of science fiction. The periodisation has been reframed to include new chapters focusing on science fiction produced outside the Anglophone context, including South Asian, Latin American, Chinese and African diasporic science fiction. The contributors use both well- established critical and theoretical approaches and embrace a range of new ones, including biopolitics, climate crisis, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, energy humanities, game studies, medical humanities, new materialisms and sonic studies.

This book is an invaluable resource for students and established scholars seeking to understand the vast range of engagements with science fiction in scholarship today.

Chapter 39 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bould, Mark

Butler, Andrew M.

Vint, Sherryl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Science Fiction Histories

Chapter 1: North African, Middle Eastern, Arabic and diasporic science fiction

Chapter 2: The Copernican revolution

Chapter 3: Indigenous futurisms

Chapter 4: Art as science Fiction

Chapter 5: Nineteenth-century western science fiction

Chapter 6: Latin American science fiction

Chapter 7: Russian-language science fiction

Chapter 8: South Asian science fiction

Chapter 9: Afro-diasporic speculative fiction

Chapter 10: Anglophone print fiction: children’s and young adult

Chapter 11: Afrofuturism

Chapter 12: Science fiction illustration

Chapter 13: Japanese science fiction

Chapter 14: Science fiction film, 1895-1940

Chapter 15: Chinese science fiction

Chapter 16: Anglophone print fiction: the pulps to the New Wave

Chapter 17: Anglophone science fiction fandoms, 1920s-2020s

Chapter 18: Science fiction theatre

Chapter 19: Radio and podcasts

Chapter 20: Comics from the 1930s to the 1960s

Chapter 21: Science fiction film and television: the 1950s to the 1970s

Chapter 22: Video, installation art and short science fiction film

Chapter 23: Anglophone print fiction: the New Wave to the new millennium

Chapter 24: Comics since the late 1960s

Chapter 25: Transmedia and franchise science fiction

Chapter 26: Science fiction film and television: the 1980s and 1990s

Chapter 27: South Korean science fiction

Chapter 28: Twenty-first century film

Chapter 29: Twenty-first century television

Chapter 30: Anglophone print fiction: the new millennium

Chapter 31: Diasporic Latinx futurism

Part II: Science Fiction Praxis

Chapter 32: Advertising, prototyping and Silicon Valley culture

Chapter 33: Alternate history

Chapter 34: Animal studies

Chapter 35: Biopolitics

Chapter 36: Climate crisis and environmental humanities

Chapter 37: Critical ethnic studies

Chapter 38: Digital cultures

Chapter 39: Disability studies

Chapter 40: DIY science fiction

Chapter 41: Economics and financialisation

Chapter 42: Empire

Chapter 43: Energy humanities

Chapter 44: Feminisms

Chapter 45: Game studies

Chapter 46: Geography, urban design, and architecture

Chapter 47: Marxism

Chapter 48: Medical humanities

Chapter 49: New materialism

Chapter 50: Post/trans/human

Chapter 51: Queer and trans theory

Chapter 52: Science fiction tourism

Chapter 53: Social activism and science fiction

Chapter 54: Sonic studies

Chapter 55: Utopian studies

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Bould (he/ him) is Professor of Film and Literature at the University of the West of England. He is the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts’ Distinguished Scholarship Award. His books include This Is Not A Science Fiction Textbook (with Steven Shaviro; 2024), The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021), M. John Harrison: Critical Essays (with Rhys Williams 2019), Solaris (2014), SF Now (with Rhys Williams 2014), Africa SF (2013), Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012) and The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (with Sherryl Vint; 2011).

Andrew M. Butler (he/ him) is the author of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2019) and Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (2012). He is Managing Editor of Extrapolation and chair of judges for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Sherryl Vint (she/ her) is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Chair of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Innovative Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement Awards. Her books include Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV (with Jonathan Alexander; 2022), Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021), Science Fiction: The Essential Knowledge (2021), After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century (2020), The Futures Industry (2015), Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader (2015) and Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014).