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  • Science Fiction

    de Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change.The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wire

    de Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Analyzes how The Wire repurposed television drama for political critique.Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, The Wire redefined the police serial format by unfolding its narrative across many episodes, constructing themes for each of its seasons, and refusing to portray individual crimes outside of their social context. While it never achieved spectacular ratings ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed

    de Dr Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism has offered to the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Reactionary Worldbuilding

    From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice

    Edición de Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, Jordan S. Carroll ...
    The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “normal,” “real,” or “inevitable.” This act of speculation—known as worldbuilding—has become undeniably resurgent ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Beyond Cyberpunk

    New Critical Perspectives

    Edición de Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a world shaped by information technology. The ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edición de Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years.Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

    de Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
    Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Programming the Future

    Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

    de Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander ...
    From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edición de Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

    Edición de Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Programming the Future

    Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

    de Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander ...
    From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction

    Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction

    Edición de Sherryl Vint, Sümeyra Buran ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD