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The fragmented social and the episodicity of everyday life in Kontroll (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, October). The fragmented social and the episodicity of everyday life in Kontroll. Paper presented at Research seminar, Technical University of Liberec, the Czech Republic

Research seminar on Nimrod Antal's film about contemporary anomie

Inner space (2014)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2014). Inner space. In J. Bell (Ed.), Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder - A BFI Compendium. Sight & Sound

Critical overview of sf films exploring the destabilisation of human identity.

Film (2014)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2014). Film. In R. Latham (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Oxford University Press

A critical overview of critical-theoretical understandings of sf film, especially those promulgated by critics devoted to sf as a prose fiction form. It also considers adaptation, spectacle and special effects.

Introduction to The Year of the Sex Olympics (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, October). Introduction to The Year of the Sex Olympics. Presented at Future Visions from Post-War Britain, The Cube, Bristol, UK

Introduction to Nigel Kneale's sf television dramas. Part of Future Visions from Post-War Britain: Nigel Kneale, The Cube, 16 October 2014

Book review: Bigger on the inside, or maybe on the outside: Lindy Orthia, ed, Doctor Who and Race; Matt Hills, ed., New Dimensions of Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Time and Television; Paul Booth, ed., Doctor Who: Fan Phenomena; and Iain MacRury and Michael Rustin, The Inner World of Doctor Who: Psychoanalytic Reflections in Time and Space (2014)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2014). Book review: Bigger on the inside, or maybe on the outside: Lindy Orthia, ed, Doctor Who and Race; Matt Hills, ed., New Dimensions of Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Time and Television; Paul Booth, ed., Doctor Who: Fan Phenomena; and Iain MacRury and Michael Rustin, The Inner World of Doctor Who: Psychoanalytic Reflections in Time and Space. Science Fiction Film and Television, 7(2), 265-286. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2014.14

Review essay of four recent books on Doctor Who

Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper (2014)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2014). Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper. Science Fiction Studies, 123,

Both popular and academic criticism tend to decry sf cinema’s commitment to spectacle and special effects as intellectually stultifying and thus politically narcotizing. This article challenges the class politics of taste and the crude models of inte... Read More about Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper.