Cityscapes of the Future

Urban Spaces in Science Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36130-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 53, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

Reihe: Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Maurer, Yael

Koren-Kuik, Meyrav

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Meyrav Koren-Kuik and Yael Maurer

Part 1: The City and the Body
Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground
Inbar Kaminsky
Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments
Eduardo Barros-Grela
Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body
Elsa Bouet

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
Wires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens’ London in Cyberspace
Keith Daniel Harris
City of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction
Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang
Spatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson
Imola Bülgözdi

Part 3: Cities of Imagination
“Divided Against Itself”: Dual Urban Chronotopes
Elana Gomel
Experiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as ‘Citizens’ of The Hunger Games Storyworld
Natalie Krikowa
‘Final Men’, Racialised Fears & the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films
Glen Donnar
Imagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series Caprica
Torsten Caeners
The Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-Fictional City as a Detective Story
Shawn Edrei

Über Autor(innen)

Yael Maurer, Ph.D. (2009), Tel Aviv University, is a lecturer at the English and American Studies department at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has published The Science Fictional Dimensions of Salman Rushdie (2014) and articles on Hitchcock, Dickens and Philip Roth, among others.

Meyrav Koren-Kuik is a doctoral candidate at the Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University. Her main research areas are Victorian literature, and Science Fiction.