Alien imaginations : science fiction and tales of transnationalism /: science fiction and tales of transnationalism. (2015 copyright 2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ulrike Küchler, Silja Maehl, and Graeme A. Stout ; foreword by Dame Gillian Beer.
• Editors: Küchler, Ulrike; Maehl, Silja; Stout, Graeme
• Contents: Preface / Dame Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge (UK) -- Introduction / Ulrike Küchler, Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany), Silja Maehl, Brown University (US) and Graeme Stout, University of Minnesota (US) -- Alien Art: Encounters with Otherworldly Places and Inter-medial Spaces / Ulrike Küchler -- Space: The Final (Queer) Frontier. The Sexual Other in Eleanor Arnason's Ring of Swords / Emilie McCabe, University of Toronto (Canada) -- Alienated Labor: William Gibson's Girls / Jen Caruso, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (US) -- Assimilating Aliens: Imagining National Identity in Oskar Panizza's Operated Jew and Salomo Friedlander's Operated Goy / Joela Jacobs, University of Chicago (US) -- Canned Foreign. Transnational Estrangement in Yoko Tawada / Silja Maehl -- Migrants and the Dystopian State / Matthew Goodwin, University of Massachusetts Amherst (US) -- Alienation, Hybridity, and Liminality in Ray Bradbury and Archie Weller / Celia Guimares Helene, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Brazil) -- The Interplanetary Logic of Late Capitalism: Global Warming, Forced Migration and Cyborg Futures in Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Andrew Opitz, Hawaii Pacific University (US) -- Control and Flow: Winterbottom's Migratory Cinema / Graeme Stout -- Human Subjects/Alien Objects: Abjection and the Constructions of Race and Racism in District 9 / Andrew Butler, Canterbury Christ Church University (UK) -- Was of the Worlds / John Mowitt, Leeds University (UK) -- Meeting the Other: Cyborgs, Aliens & Beyond / Bianca Westermann, Ruhr Universitat, Bochum (Germany) -- "This is I, Hamlet the Dane!" Hamlet's Migration and Integration in the Dramatic Theater as Cyberspace / Gerrit Roessler, University of Virginia (US).
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 809.38762; Film theory & criticism; Science fiction films -- History and criticism; Science fiction, American -- History and criticism; Science fiction, English -- History and criticism; Alienation (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Film: styles & genres; Globalization; Literary Criticism -- Science Fiction & Fantasy; Political Science -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Literary studies: post-colonial literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781628921168; 1628921161
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