The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas

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by J. P. Telotte

Type

Encyclopedias

Subject

Genre > Science Fiction

Keywords

science fiction

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 360 pages
7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (18.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-755772-3

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Book Presentation:
The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction. In contemporary film, science fiction is a key locus both for displaying and for imaginatively addressing social and cultural issues. Today, popular modes of this cinema have transformed the nature of the genre, directly incorporating pressing concerns about racial tensions, the environment, and gender inequality, among other cultural and social issues. This volume defines these new modes as slant forms of science fiction, changing a genre most often associated with the icons of science and technology into a substantially new range of science fiction cinemas.

This handbook presents two groups of essays, both of which explore what these new science fiction cinemas address and how viewers can better navigate these films. The first group of essays provides a contextual and historical definition for a selection of slant types, featuring analyses of examples such as Afrofuturism, biopunk cinema, feminist science fiction, heterotopic spaces, and superhero cinema. The second group offers a broader theoretical vantage on some of the critical and revolutionary slants informing contemporary science fiction, including topics like bioethics, cult behaviors, gender and queer theory, and posthumanism. From exploring new theoretical approaches to highlighting new cultural attitudes, this volume presents the science fiction cinema not only as a flexible and adaptable process, but also as a reflection of contemporary culture's own evolution.

About the Author:
J. P. Telotte, Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology J. P. Telotte is Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the co-editor of the journal Post Script, and has published widely on film and television, with a special emphasis on science fiction media. His most recent publications include Robot Ecology, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination, and Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps.

Press Reviews:
"...future researchers can build on many ofthe great ideas explored in this Oxford Handbook." - Troy Michael Bordun, Science Fiction Studies, Volume 51

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