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 scholarly discourse.
The Handbook begins with a focus on questions of genre, covering topics such as critical history, keywords, narrative, the fantastic, and fandom. A subsequent section on media engages with film, television, comics, architecture, music, video games, and more. The genre's role in the convergence of art and everyday life animates a third section, which addresses topics such as UFOs,
Author(s): Rob Latham
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 638
City: Oxford
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The Oxford Handbook of
Science Fiction
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part I Science Fiction as Genre
1 Extrapolation and Speculation
2 Aesthetics
3 Histories
4 Literary Movements
5 Fandom
6 The Marketplace
7 Pulp Science Fiction
8 Literary Science Fiction
9 Slipstream
10 The Fantastic
11 Genre vs. Mode
Part II Science Fiction as Medium
12 Film
13 Radio and Television
14 Animation
15 Art and Illustration
16 Comics
17 Video Games
18 Digital Arts and Hypertext
19 Music
20 Performance Art
21 Architecture
22 Theme Parks
Part III Science Fiction as Culture
23 The Culture of Science
24 Automation
25 Military Culture
26 Atomic Culture and the Space Race
27 UFOs, Scientology, and Other SF Religions
28 Advertising and Design
29 Countercultures
30 Sexuality
31 Body Modification
32 Cyberculture
33 Retrofuturism and Steampunk
Part IV Science Fiction as Worldview
34 The Enlightenment
35 The Gothic
36 Darwinism
37 Colonialism and Postcolonialism
38 Pseudoscience
39 Futurology
40 Posthumanism
41 Feminism
42 Libertarianism and Anarchism
43 Afrofuturism
44 Utopianism
Index
