From the novels of Anne Rice to "The Lost Boys," from "The Terminator" to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In "Consuming Youth," Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Inspired by Marx's use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how...
From the novels of Anne Rice to "The Lost Boys," from "The Terminator" to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visib...
The excitement of possible futures found in science fiction has long fired the human imagination, but the genre's acceptance by academe is relatively recent. No longer marginalized and fighting for respectability, science-fictional works are now studied alongside more traditional art forms. Tracing the capacious genre's birth, evolution, and impact across nations, time periods, subgenres, and media, The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction offers an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of this robust area of scholarly inquiry and considers the future directions that will dictate the terms of the...
The excitement of possible futures found in science fiction has long fired the human imagination, but the genre's acceptance by academe is relatively ...
Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:
-Definitions and boundaries of the genre -The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space' -Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings -The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals -Race and the legacy of colonialism
The...
Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this e...
Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:
.Definitions and boundaries of the genre .The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space' .Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings .The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals .Race and the legacy of colonialism
The...
Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this e...
Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters spend thirty years writing tales about transreally warped versions of themselves? A unique perspective on giant ants, flying jellyfish, Soviet rocketeers, runaway genomics, Silicon Valley, and the death of the Universe. With notes by the authors and an introduction by Rob Latham.
Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters spend thirty years writing ta...
