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

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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