Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Rabitsch, Stefan

Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781496836625)

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Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Rabitsch, Stefan

Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

$110.00
Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Rabitsch, Stefan

Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, Mar? Isabel P駻ez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ram?ez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates

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.

Author: Stefan Rabitsch
ISBN-10: 1496836626
ISBN-13: 9781496836625
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2022
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2022
By Stefan Rabitsch
By Stefan Rabitsch
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Stefan Rabitsch is associate professor of American studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is author of "Star Trek" and the British Age of Sail: The Maritime Influence Throughout the Series and Films and coeditor of Set Phasers to Teach! "Star Trek" in Research and Teaching and The Routledge Handbook of "Star Trek." Michael Fuchs is coeditor of Intermedia Games--Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality; ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity; Placing America: American Culture and Its Spaces; and Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory. Stefan L. Brandt is professor of American studies at the University of Graz in Austria. He is author of The Culture of Corporeality: Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945-1960 and coeditor of Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction; Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City; Making National Bodies: Cultural Identity and the Politics of the Body in (Post-)Revolutionary America; and Transnational American Studies.

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