Steampunk Film: A Critical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781501368608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Robbie McAllister

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Steampunk Goes to the Movies: The Birth of a Genre Identification and Definition (1.A.) Entering the Mainstream (1.B.) Steampunk as Genre Cinema 9 (1.C.) Prototype to Archetype: Collating Steampunk in Film (1.D.) 2. Reengineered and Repurposed: Steampunk as Adaptation Adaptation and Reception: ‘Sticking-Up’ The Wild Wild West (2.A.) Auteur-ity and Authority: Inferring Legitimacy on the Adaptation (2.B.) Adaptation, Homogenisation and the Blockbuster (2.C.) Adaptation and the Transmedia ‘Mash-Up’ (2.D.) ‘Steampunking’: Genre as Adaptive Methodology (2.E.) 3. Dreams of Steam: Nostalgia for an Age of Imagined Industry Spectacular Machines: The Nuts and Bolts of the Steampunk Skin (3.A.) Technological Virtues: The Wonders and Horrors of Mechanical Progress (3.B.) Craftsmanship and Mechanical Mastery (3.C.) Cinematic Production and the Steampunk Object (3.D.) 4. Historical Identities: Representation in the Steampunk Empire Visions of Antiquity and the Fashion of History (4.A.) Global Industries: Colonialism and National Heritage (4.B.) Social Problem Cinema: Gender and Race in Steampunk’s Histories (4.C.) Mechanical Bodies and Electric Souls: Assembling the Steampunk Cyborg (4.D.) 5. Clockwork Modernities: Tinkering with Time in a Steampunk Age Rationality, Reason and Industrial Fantasies (5.A.) Magical Machines and the Technological Occult (5.B.) Postmodernity and the New Real (5.C.) Industrial Renascence: The Persistence of Modernity (5.D.) Beyond Space and Time: Exploring Alternative Modernities (5.E.) 6. Gearing Down: Making the Past Present in Steampunk Cinema Works Cited Bibliography