{"product_id":"simultaneous-worlds-9780816693184","title":"Simultaneous Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimultaneous Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the notion that science fiction cinema is largely a Western genre by focusing on cinemas and cultures from Cuba to North Korea that are not traditionally associated with science fiction. This is the first volume to bring a transnational, interdisciplinary lens to science fiction cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells have done a marvelous job of bringing together established scholars with emerging voices to create a unique critical collection on global science fiction cinema, which they show is neither an impossible dream nor an artificial unity, but rather a major way to think about science fiction cinema in the new millennium.\"—N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A detailed filmography and robust index make the book practical for the classroom\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Intermediality and New Media Economies\u003cbr\u003e1. Scan Lines: How Cyborgs Feel\u003cbr\u003eThomas Lamarre\u003cbr\u003e2. What Is Estranged in Science Fiction Animation?\u003cbr\u003eIstvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e3. Famous for Fifteen Minutes: Permutations of Science Fiction Short Film\u003cbr\u003ePaweł Frelik\u003cbr\u003e4. Forms of Journey and Archive: Remaking Science Fiction in Contemporary Artist-Filmmakers’ Projects\u003cbr\u003eJihoon Kim\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Traveling Science Fiction: Translation, Adaptation, and Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e5. Media Heterotopias and Science Fiction: Transnational Workflows and Transgalactic Spaces in Digitally Composited Ecosystems\u003cbr\u003eHye Jean Chung\u003cbr\u003e6. \u003ci\u003eF. P. 1\u003c\/i\u003e and the Language of a Global Science Fiction Cinema\u003cbr\u003eJ. P. Telotte\u003cbr\u003e7. \u003ci\u003eEnthiran, the Robot:\u003c\/i\u003e Sujatha, Science Fiction, and Tamil Cinema\u003cbr\u003eSwarnavel Eswaran Pillai\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Spatial and Temporal Alternative Modernities in the Global South\u003cbr\u003e8. Polytemporality in Argentine Science Fiction Film: A Critique of the Homogenous Time of Historicism and Modernity\u003cbr\u003eJoanna Page\u003cbr\u003e9. Virtual Immigrants: Transfigured Bodies and Transnational Spaces in Science Fiction Cinema\u003cbr\u003eEverett Hamner\u003cbr\u003e10. Walking Dead in Havana: \u003ci\u003eJuan of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and the Zombie Film Genre\u003cbr\u003eEmily A. Maguire\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Techno-Capitalism and Techno-Desires: The Gendered Affect of Post-Cyborgs\u003cbr\u003e11. Who Does the Feeling When There’s No Body There?: Critical Feminism Meets Cyborg Affect in Oshii Mamoru’s \u003ci\u003eInnocence\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSharalyn Orbaugh\u003cbr\u003e12. The Invention of Romance: Park Chan-wook’s \u003ci\u003eI’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSteve Choe\u003cbr\u003e13. A Disenchanted Fantastic: The Pathos of Objects in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s \u003ci\u003eAir Doll\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMichelle Cho\u003cbr\u003ePart V. National, International, Intergalactic: Socialist and Post-Socialist Science Fiction Cinema\u003cbr\u003e14. Alien Commodities in Soviet Science Fiction Cinema: \u003ci\u003eAelita\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSolaris, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKin-dza-dza!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJillian Porter\u003cbr\u003e15. Parodies of Realism at the Margins of Science Fiction: Jang Jun-hwan’s \u003ci\u003eSave the Green Planet \u003c\/i\u003eand Sin Sang-ok’s \u003ci\u003ePulgasari\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTravis Workman\u003cbr\u003e16. Media and Messages: Blurred Visions of Nation and Science in \u003ci\u003eDeath Ray on a Coral Island\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNathaniel Isaacson\u003cbr\u003eSelect Filmography\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405975036247,"sku":"9780816693184","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816693184.jpg?v=1730494108","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/simultaneous-worlds-9780816693184","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}