SF: the Other Side of Realism

SF: the Other Side of Realism
Author: Thomas D. Clareson
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1971
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780879720230

A collection of twenty-five essays from eight countries, illustrating the many approaches to science fiction.

Science Fiction

Science Fiction
Author: Ratnakar D. Bhelkar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2009
Genre: Fantasy in literature
ISBN: 9788126910366

Music and Mythmaking in Film

Music and Mythmaking in Film
Author: Timothy E. Scheurer
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2007-12-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786431903

This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical methods that modern composers employ to underscore and accompany the visual events. Each chapter begins with an analysis of the major narrative and scoring conventions of a particular genre and concludes with an in-depth analysis of two film examples from different time periods. Several photographic stills and sheet music excerpts are included throughout the work, along with a select bibliography and discography.

Screening Space

Screening Space
Author: Vivian Carol Sobchack
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780813524924

This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists. The book should appeal to both film buff and fans of science fiction.

Brave new words

Brave new words
Author: Jeff Prucher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0195305671

The Empire Strikes Out

The Empire Strikes Out
Author: William B. Fischer
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879722586

German science fiction offers a most interesting contribution to the history and criticism of science fiction. William B. Fischer examines two writers, Kurd Lasswitz and Hans Dominik. He concludes that German science fiction is in distinct contrast to the "normative" tradition of modern Anglo-American science fiction and to many other literary traditions as well. His book demonstrates vividly the social relevance and enduring cultural vitality of science fiction.

The Cambridge History of Science Fiction

The Cambridge History of Science Fiction
Author: Gerry Canavan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-12-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316733017

The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.

Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis

Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis
Author: James Gunn
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476673195

James Gunn--one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching--wrote in 1951 what is likely the first master's thesis on modern science fiction. Portions were in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic but it has otherwise remained unavailable. Here in its first full publication, the thesis explores many of the classic Golden Age stories of the 1940s and the critical perspective that informed Gunn's essential genre history Alternate Worlds and his anthology series The Road to Science Fiction. The editor's introduction and commentary show the historical significance of Gunn's work and its relevance to today's science fiction studies.

The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
Author: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0819571520

This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today’s world. As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and sophistication, it shares a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. A strikingly high proportion of today’s films, commercial art, popular music, video games, and non-genre fiction are what Csicsery-Ronay calls “science fictional” —stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the “seven beauties” of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technoscience’s development into a global regime.