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Offers critical interpretations of science fiction as represented in film, television and other non-literary media. Ranging from historical analysis to psychoanalytic critiques, and from avant-garde films to television sitcoms, the book addresses science fiction in terms of "sexual difference".

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Child/alien/father - patriarchal crisis and generic exchange, Vivian Sobchack; androids and androgyny, Janet Bergstrom; time travel, primal scene, and the critical dystopia, Constance Penley; reimagining the gargoyle - psychoanalytic notes on "Alien", Harvey R.Greenberg; ideal Hadaly on Villiers's "The Future Eve", Raymond Bellour; "Metropolis" - mother-city, "Mittler"and Hitler, Roger Dadoun; "Metropolis" scene 103, Enno Patalas; "Star Trek" rerun, reread, rewritten - fan writing as textual poaching, Henry Jenkins III; from domestic space to outer space - the 1960's fantastic family sit-com, Lynn Spigel; friendship's death, Peter Wollen.

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A Paperback by Constance Penley, Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel

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    Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
    Publication Date: 1/11/1991 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780816619122, 978-0816619122
    ISBN10: 0816619123
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Offers critical interpretations of science fiction as represented in film, television and other non-literary media. Ranging from historical analysis to psychoanalytic critiques, and from avant-garde films to television sitcoms, the book addresses science fiction in terms of "sexual difference".

    Table of Contents
    Child/alien/father - patriarchal crisis and generic exchange, Vivian Sobchack; androids and androgyny, Janet Bergstrom; time travel, primal scene, and the critical dystopia, Constance Penley; reimagining the gargoyle - psychoanalytic notes on "Alien", Harvey R.Greenberg; ideal Hadaly on Villiers's "The Future Eve", Raymond Bellour; "Metropolis" - mother-city, "Mittler"and Hitler, Roger Dadoun; "Metropolis" scene 103, Enno Patalas; "Star Trek" rerun, reread, rewritten - fan writing as textual poaching, Henry Jenkins III; from domestic space to outer space - the 1960's fantastic family sit-com, Lynn Spigel; friendship's death, Peter Wollen.

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