Format:
x, 311 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781496836625
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Literturverzeicnis Seite 273 - 293
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496836632
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496836656
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496836663
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496836670
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781496836649
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Fantastic cities Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
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Science-Fiction-Literatur
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Horrorroman
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Horrorfilm
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Fantastische Literatur
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Fantastischer Film
;
Stadt
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Brandt, Stefan L. 1964-
