Liquid Metal : The Science Fiction Film Reader

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ISBN: 9781903364871 | 1903364876
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Copyright: 11/30/2004

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Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader is the first extended collection of previously published essays on science fiction film and television. This Reader brings together a great number of seminal essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. It is divided into eight distinct themed sections and includes important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J. P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley amongst others, writing on films such as Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars, Total Recall, Them! and The Thing.

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
The Wonder of Science Fiction	p. 1
Images of Wonder: The Look of Science Fiction	p. 4
'You've Got To Be Fucking Kidding!': Knowledge, Belief and Judgement in Science Fiction	p. 11
Sensuous Elaboration: Reason and the Visible in the Science Fiction Film	p. 17
Between Science Fact and Science Fiction: Spielberg's Digital Dinosaurs, Possible Worlds and the New Aesthetic Realism	p. 24
Science Fiction's Disaster Imagination	p. 37
The Imagination of Disaster	p. 40
Technophobia/Dystopia	p. 48
Human Artifice and the Science Fiction Film	p. 57
Dream Girls and Mechanic Panic: Dystopia and its Others in Brazil and Nineteen Eighty-Four	p. 64
Spatial Abyss: The Science Fiction City	p. 75
Cities on the Edge of Time: The Urban Science Fiction Film	p. 78
Dark City: White Flight and the Urban Science Fiction Film in Postwar America	p. 88
On the Edge of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and Hong Kong's Cityscape	p. 98
The Origin of Species: Time Travel and the Primal Scene	p. 113
Back to the Future: Oedipus as Time Traveller	p. 116
Time Travel, Primal Scene and the Critical Dystopia	p. 126
Another Time, Another Space: Modernity, Subjectivity and The Time Machine	p. 136
With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods	p. 145
Liquid Metal: The Cyborg in Science Fiction	p. 155
A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s	p. 158
Technophilia: Technology, Representation and the Feminine	p. 182
Machine as Messiah: Cyborgs, Morphs and the American Body Politic	p. 191
Ghosts and Machines: The Technological Body	p. 205
Imitation of Life: Postmodern Science Fiction	p. 217
Postfuturism	p. 220
Who Programs You? The Science Fiction of the Spectacle	p. 228
Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner	p. 239
Akira, Postmodernism and Resistance	p. 249
Poaching the Universe: Science Fiction Fandom	p. 261
Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching	p. 264
'We're Only A Speck in the Ocean': The Fan as Powerless Elite	p. 281
New Hope: The Postmodern Project of Star Wars	p. 298
Web of Babylon	p. 308
Look to the Skies!: 1950s Science Fiction Invasion Narratives	p. 315
The Russians Are Coming, Aren't They? Them! and The Thing	p. 318
Re-examining the 1950s Invasion Narratives	p. 325
We're the Martians Now: British SF Invasion Fantasies of the 1950s and 1960s	p. 337
Index	p. 347
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