Información General

• Autores: Yael Maurer (ed. lit.), Meyrav Koren-Kuik (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Brill
• Año de publicación: 2018
• Colecciones: Consciousness literature & the arts, 53
• País: Países Bajos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36130-0
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Resumen

• "Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction" offers an examination of the central role played by urban spaces in science fictional narratives in various media forms from the literary to the ludic to the cinematic. Our contributors reflect on the ways diverse urban scenarios are central to the narratives’ science fictional imaginary and consider the pivotal roles cityscapes play in underscoring major thematic concerns, such as political struggles, social inequality and other cultural epistemologies. The chapters in the collection are divided into three sections examining the city and the body, cities of estrangement, and cities of the imagination.

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Listado de artículos

• • Part I. The city and the body

    • Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer's "Veniss Undergraund"

      Inbar Kaminsky

      • Resumen

      págs. 14-27

      

    • Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments

      Eduardo Barros-Grela

      • Resumen

      págs. 28-48

      

    • Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body

      Elsa Bouet

      • Resumen

      págs. 49-65

      

  • Part 2. Cities of estrangement

    • Time Travel, Dystopia, and the Manhattan Skyscraper in George Allan England’s "The Last New Yorkers" and Murray Leinster’s “The Runaway Skyscraper”

      Rosalind Fursland

      • Resumen

      págs. 69-86

      

    • Wires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens’ London in Cyberspace

      Keith Daniel Harris

      • Resumen

      págs. 87-101

      

    • City of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction

      Henri Simon Blanc Hoàng

      • Resumen

      págs. 102-119

      

    • Spatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson

      Imola Bülgözdi

      • Resumen

      págs. 120-136

      

  • Part 3. Cities of imagination

    • “Divided Against Itself”: Dual Urban Chronotopes

      Elana Gomel

      • Resumen

      págs. 139-150

      

    • Experiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as ‘Citizens’ of "The Hunger Games" Storyworld

      Natalie Krikova

      • Resumen

      págs. 151-167

      

    • ‘Final Men’, Racialised Fears & the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films

      Glen Donnar

      • Resumen

      págs. 168-185

      

    • Imagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series "Caprica"

      Torsten Caeners

      • Resumen

      págs. 186-205

      

    • The Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-fictional City as a Detective Story

      Shawn Edrei

      • Resumen

      págs. 206-217