Mark Bould's Outputs (187)

Atrocity exhibition (2008)
Journal Article

Review of named film

Eraserheads (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This public panel discussed various aspects of the relationship between cinema and memory, with a particular focus on the gallery work of Pierre Bismuth and Michel Gondry. The panel was chaired by Roger Luckhurst; the co-panellists were Jonathan Romn... Read More about Eraserheads.

Monsters and modernity (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A critical overview of the repressive aspects of modernity which, in popular culture at least, tend to unleash monsters. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, this paper also considers the relationship between 'progress' and catastrophe.

Reading science fiction (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

After an initial short presentation on the failure of sf studies to engage with issues emerging in genre studies over the last decade or so, I participated in a chaired discussion concerning this and presentations by other panellists.

Peristalsis, proliferation and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital sf cinema (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper addresses the changing nature of the cinematic experience in the era of blockbuster digital filmmaking, using Transformers as its key example.

Screening Mars: Desire and denial in Aelita (Protazonov USSR 1924) and Just Imagine (Butler US 1930) (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An analysis of contrasting depictions of Mars as a location of desire rather than an astronomical venue.

Science fiction television in the United Kingdom (2008)
Book Chapter

A critical overview of British television sf, from 1938 to the present day, with special attention to the ways in which it has articulated the UK’s shifting position in global politics and economics.

The bald and the beautiful: The performativity of Billy Zane (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Analysis of Billy Zane's performance style in relation to the economics of contemporary filmmaking.

Proliferation, peristalsis and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital SF cinema (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper addresses the changing nature of the cinamatic experience in the era of blockbuster digital filmamking, using Transformers as its key example.

Transformers (2008)
Journal Article

Review of named film

Arthur C. Clarke's Vision of Benevolent Empire (2008)
Journal Article

An obituary of Arthur C. Clarke, with a critical focus on his treatment of imperialism/colonialism.

SF histories (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mark Bould was one of four closing plenary panel members at this conference. The closing panel sumamrised the key ideas that emerged during the course of the conference and suggestions about their implications for future research.

Writing/Genre/History: Everyone else is wrong (and so am I) (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An overview of the problems involved in writing a history of a genre, drawing on debates in contemporary historiography and science studies.

Tortured torsos: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking anorexia as a model of subjectivity under contemporary capital, this paper analyses the noir protagonists of Fight Club and The Machinist and their relationships to power, labour and their own bodies.

The very modern world of Fritz Lang (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking Lang's films as the pulp wing of the Frankfurt School, this lecture demonstrated that although not a Marxist Lang developed a critique of capitalist urban/industrial modernity very similar in some respects to that of Theodor Adorno.

BBC4’s Worlds of Fantasy, ‘Through the looking glass’ episode (2008)
Other

Mark Bould contributed to this television documentary series, which provided a discussion of China Mieville's King Rat in relation to the new weird movement in contemporary fantasy fiction and to post-Seattle and post-9/11 politics.

Race/War: Patrick B. Sharp, Savage perils: Racial frontiers and nuclear apocalypse in American culture (2008)
Journal Article

Book review of named volume

Fantastically fucked-up masculinity: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking anorexia as a model of subjectivity under contemporary capital, this paper analyses the noir protagonists of Fight Club and The Machinist and their relationship to power, labour and their own bodies.

Film neige: Noir + snow (2008)
Journal Article

A critical introduction to the role played by snow in film noir and neo-noir.

Science Fiction Studies 102. Volume 34, Part 2: Special 'Afrofuturism' issue (2007)
Other

Mark Bould and Rone Shavers edited this special issue of the journal Fiction Studies, devoted to afrofuturism and black sf.