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[Commlist] New book: Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

Mon Jan 30 14:59:47 GMT 2023





It is a pleasure to announce the publication of the book /Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns/ <https://www.routledge.com/Science-Fiction-Cinema-in-the-Twenty-First-Century-Transnational-Futures/Gomez-Munoz/p/book/9780367759063>//(Routledge).


The book is available in paperback, e-book, and hardback formats. Routledge offers a 20% discount with code ESA22 until February 28. You can download an extract by clicking on the "Preview PDF" button here <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003164517/science-fiction-cinema-twenty-first-century-pablo-g%C3%B3mez-mu%C3%B1oz>.




*Book description: *

Recent films are increasingly using themes and conventions of science fiction such as dystopian societies, catastrophic environmental disasters, apocalyptic scenarios, aliens, monsters, time travel, teleportation, and supernatural abilities to address cosmopolitan concerns such as human rights, climate change, economic precarity, and mobility. This book identifies and analyses the new transnational turn towards cosmopolitanism in science fiction cinema since the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The book considers a wide selection of examples, including case studies of films such as /Elysium/, /In Time/, /2012/, Andrew Niccol’s /The Host/, /Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same/, and /Cloud Atlas. /It also questions the seeming cosmopolitanism of these narratives and exposes how they sometimes reproduce social hierarchies and exploitative practices.

Dealing with diverse, interdisciplinary concerns represented in cinema, this book in the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series will be of interest to readers and scholars working in the fields of science fiction, film and media studies, cosmopolitanism, border theory, popular culture, and cultural studies. It will also appeal to fans of science fiction cinema and literature.

*Table of Contents*

Introduction: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns

1. Systemic Dystopias through a Cosmopolitan Lens: Contesting Global Neoliberalism

2. Greening Apocalypse: Eco-Conscious Disaster and the Biopolitics of Climate Change

3. Love for the Alien Same: Interplanetary Romance and Kinship as Harbingers of Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism

4. The Cosmopolitan Potential of Connections across Time and Space

Conclusion


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