Black Space Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film

Name: Black Space Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film
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ISBN: 9780292717459

ISBN-10: 0292717458

ISBN-13: 9780292717459

Edition: 2008

Authors: Adilifu Nama

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Science fiction film offers its viewers many pleasures, not least of which is the possibility of imagining other worlds in which very different forms of society exist. Not surprisingly, however, these alternative worlds often become spaces in which filmmakers and film audiences can explore issues of concern in our own society. Through an analysis of over thirty canonic science fiction (SF) films, including Logan's Run, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Gattaca, and Minority Report , Black Space offers a thorough-going investigation of how SF film since the 1950s has dealt with the issue of race and specifically with the representation of blackness. Setting his study against…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Structured Absence and Token Presence



Bad Blood: Fear of Racial Contamination



The Black Body: Figures of Distortion



Humans Unite! Race, Class, and Postindustrial Aliens



White Narratives, Black Allegories



Subverting the Genre: The Mothership Connection


Notes


Bibliography


Index