Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Science Fiction Media Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow (2007), Animal Alterity (2010), The Wire (2013), and Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014). She is the coauthor of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011), and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009), and Beyond Cyberpunk (2010). She is an editor of the journals Science Fiction Studies and Science Fiction Film and Television and is a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pioneer Award.

• Introduction: Semiotic Ghosts and Broken DreamsPart 1: Gender, Technology and the Body1. Bodies in Space: Film as Carnal Knowledge, Annette Michelson2. Typewriter, Friedrich Kittler3. Horror and the Monstrous Feminine, Barbara Creed4. Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery and Special Effects, Vivian Sobchack5. excerpts from Connected: What it Means to Live in Network Society, Steve Shaviro6. Gendering the Technological Imagination, Anne BalsamoPart 2: The Science-Fictionalization of Everyday Life7. Bloodless Transfusions, Manuel De Landa8. Transplant Medicine and Transformative Narrative, Susan Squier9. Bioinformatic Bodies and the Problems of ‘Life Itself’, Eugene Thacker10. A Monstrous Vision: Disney, Science Fiction and Cinemascope, Jay Telotte11. Everyday Nanowars: Video Games and the Crises of the Digital Battlefield, Colin Milburn12. Practicing Media Archaeology: Creative Metaphors for Remediation, Jussa ParikkaPart 3: Media, Mediation, Science Fiction13. The Videology of Science Fiction, Garrett Stewart14. The Cinema of Attractions, Tom Gunning15. The Ecstasy of Communication, Jean Baudrillard16. On a Clear Day You Can See the Horizon of Invisibility: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production, Brooks Landon17. The Wonder Years and Beyond: 1989-1995, Michelle Pierson18. The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence, Henry JenkinsPart 4: Posthumanisms19. The Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway20. The Life Cycle of Cyborgs, N. Katherine Hayles21. The Image Virus, Scott Butkatman22. Meta(l)morphoses, Rosi Braidotti23. The Transmolecularization of [Black] Folk: Space in the Place, Sun Ra, and Afrofuturism, Nabeel Zuberi24. When the Machines Stop: Fantasy, Reality and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis: Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain, Susan Napier