Fantastic Cities
Stefan L. Brandt (Hrsg.), Stefan Rabitsch (Hrsg.), Michael Fuchs (Hrsg.)
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University Press of Mississippi
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
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, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, 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.
Kundenbewertungen
Colson Whitehead, Caprica City, speculative fiction, Gotham City, Panem’s Capitol, Metropolis, Christopher Nolan, the Sprawl, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, Arkham Asylum, Dark Knight Trilogy, dystopian fiction, Mega-City One, Zone One