Outputs (187)

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.

Come alive by saying no: an introduction to Black Power Sf (2007)
Journal Article

Examines a cycle of borderline sf novels produced by African American writers 1962 and 1974, which struggle to imagine the emergence of a world beyond racism.