Vint / Alexander Programming the Future

Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55257-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Programming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castle, The Expanse, and Mr. Robot.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vint, Sherryl

Alexander, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television
2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative
3. 9/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion
4. American Civil Wars
5. Desiring a Different Future: The 100 and The Expanse
6. Rebooting Democracy and Mr. Robot
Conclusion: Democracy in Crisis
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sherryl Vint is professor of media and cultural studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her books include Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014) and Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021). She is an editor of Science Fiction Studies and the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship (2017) and the Creep Trilogy of critical memoirs, and he is the YA editor for and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.