Description
Book SynopsisThis is the global culture of sci-fi
Trade Review'A left-wing reader on the nature of science fiction. A useful jumping off point into an examination of the discourse that underlines the genre' -- The Lecturer
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors
Introduction: Aliens R Us by Ziauddin Sardar
1. Delicatessen: Eco-Apocalypse in the New French Science Fiction Cinema by Sean Cubitt
2. Rewriting the ‘American Dream’: Postmodernism and Otherness in Independence Day by Jan Mair
3. Displacements of Gender and Race in Space: Above and Beyond by Nickianne Moody
4. Star Trek: First Contact: The Hybrid The Whore and the Machine by Christine Warthiem
5. Japanese Animation and Techno-Orientalism by Toshiya Ueno
6. Wicked Cities: The Other in Hong Kong Science Fiction by Gregory B. Lee and Sunny Lam
7. Saying ‘Yours’ and ‘Mine’ in Deep Space Nine by Kirk W Junker and Robert Duffy
8. False and Double Consciousness: Race Virtual Reality and the Assimilation of Hong Kong Cinema in The Matrix by Peter X Feng
9. Till the End of the World: Wenders and Eurocentric Futures by Dimitris Eleftheriotis
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