Screening Space The American Science Fiction Film

Name: Screening Space The American Science Fiction Film
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ISBN: 9780813524924

ISBN-10: 081352492X

ISBN-13: 9780813524924

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Vivian Sobchack

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Screening Space deserves the attention of everyone in our field. It is an important book, a groundbreaking book, an indispensable book for critics of SF film, SF, or contemporary mass culture. Read it and you will never view SF film in quite the same way again.Science Fiction StudiesA brilliant book, the best book yet on the American SF film.-Fantasy Review A closely reasoned, finely observed, entirely admirable piece of work. The best examination so far of the visual and aural iconography of SF film, and likely to remain the best for a long time.Journal of Film & TV Sobchack builds up her arguments meticulously. . . . she continually prods the reader to review his or her…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface to the Enlarged Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction to the First Edition



The Limits of the Genre: Definitions and Themes


What Is Science Fiction?


Literature and Film


Transylvania on Mars: Horror and Science Fiction


The Trouble with Creatures and Monsters


Magic, Science, and Religion: Towards Synthesis and Definition



Images of Wonder: The Look of Science Fiction


Iconography


Visual Functions


The Alien


The Speculative


The Extrapolative


The Alienation of the Familiar


Subversion of the Landscape


The Dehumanization of Humans


The Alien and the Familiar: The Aesthetics of Collision



The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Sounds of Science Fiction


At a Loss for Words


The Transformation of Spoken Language


Humor, Parody, and Satire


Displaced Voices


Dialogue as Ritual


Liturgy


The Word as Image


Nonverbal Sound


The Music of the Spheres


Sound Effects


The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo



Postfuturism


Altered States


Postmodernism and Aesthetic Production


The Deflation and Inflation of Space


The Collapse and Conflation of Time


The Transformation of Special "Affect" into Special "Effect"


Embracing the Alien, Erasing Alienation


Postfuturism and the "End" of Science Fiction


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index