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  • The Wire

    par Sherryl Vint ...
    Collections series TV Milestones
    Analyzes how The Wire repurposed television drama for political critique.Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, The Wire redefined the police serial format by unfolding its narrative across many episodes, constructing themes for each of its seasons, and refusing to portray individual crimes outside of their social context. While it never achieved spectacular ratings ... En savoir plus

    $34.41 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction

    par Sherryl Vint ...
    Collections series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change.The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed

    par Dr Sherryl Vint ...
    Collections series Guides for the Perplexed
    From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism has offered to the ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • After the Human

    Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century

    Modifié par Sherryl Vint ...
    Collections Livre 6 - After Series
    After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars and perspectives, it puts into dialogue the major influences from philosophy, literary study, anthropology, and science studies that set the stage ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Reactionary Worldbuilding

    From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice

    Modifié par Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, Jordan S. Carroll ...
    The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “normal,” “real,” or “inevitable.” This act of speculation—known as worldbuilding—has become undeniably resurgent ... En savoir plus

    $95.99 CAD

  • Beyond Cyberpunk

    New Critical Perspectives

    Modifié par Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a world shaped by information technology. The ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

  • Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

    par Sherryl Vint ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
    Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Programming the Future

    Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

    par Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander ...
    From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

    Modifié par Sherryl Vint ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Modifié par Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Sherryl Vint ...
    Collections series Routledge Literature Companions
    The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years.Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Programming the Future

    Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

    par Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander ...
    From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction

    Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction

    Modifié par Sherryl Vint, Sümeyra Buran ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as ... En savoir plus

    $166.49 CAD