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Fantastic Cities (eBook)

American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Autor: Stefan (Hrsg.) Rabitsch
CHF 39.35
ISBN: 978-1-4968-3664-9
Einband: Adobe Digital Editions
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Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates

Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies.

Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson Whitehead's novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel Delany's classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.

Autor Rabitsch, Stefan (Hrsg.) / Fuchs, Michael (Hrsg.) / Brandt, Stefan L. (Hrsg.)
Verlag Penguin Random House South Africa
Einband Adobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
Seitenangabe 322 S.
Ausgabekennzeichen Englisch
Abbildungen 35 b&w illustrations
Masse 16'642 KB
Auflage EPUB Single

Über den Autor Stefan (Hrsg.) Rabitsch

Edited by Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan L. Brandt

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