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Parallax views: An introduction (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., Glitre, K., & Tuck, G. (2009). Parallax views: An introduction. In M. Bould, K. Glitre, & G. Tuck (Eds.), Neo-noir (1-10). London: Wallflower Press

Introduction to the edited collection, Neo-Noir, exploring issues around noir and genre as well as outlining the aims and content of the book.

The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. In M. Bould, K. Glitre, & G. Tuck (Eds.), Neo-noir (221-239). Wallflower

Considers anorexia as a model of late-capitialist subjectivity through a consideration of the bodies of Brad Pitt and Christian Bale.

Fritz Lang (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Fritz Lang. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (131-136). Routledge

Overview of Lang’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Stanley Kubrick (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Stanley Kubrick. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (126-131). Routledge

Overview of Kubrick’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Steven Spielberg (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Steven Spielberg. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (200-205). Routledge

Overview of Spielberg’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo. In M. Bould, & C. Mieville (Eds.), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (1-26). Pluto Press (UK)

This essay argues that sf has long been engaged in mapping - often unconsciously – the processes of globalisation and empire. It illustrates this argument with analyses of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and the Wachowski brother... Read More about Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo.

Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica. In W. J. Burling (Ed.), Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical essays (257-273). McFarland

Drawing together often antagonistic Marxist and ecological critical-theory, this essay sympathetically critiques Kim Stanley Robinson’s treatment of nature, while calling for a theory and praxis which acknowledges and embraces the non-human in tackli... Read More about Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica.

Language and linguistics (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Language and linguistics. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), The Routledge companion to Science Fiction (225-235). Routledge

A critical survey of the ways in which sf texts have imagined new languages, and a materialist critique of the ways in which idealist structuralist and post-structuralist models of language have been used to discuss the specific nature of language us... Read More about Language and linguistics.

Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future. In L. White, & C. Pajaczkowska (Eds.), The Sublime Now (269-285). Cambridge Scholars

This essay connects the spectacle of the digitally animated workerless production line in contemporary blockbusters to David Nye's argument about the development of the sublime in American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. It culminates in a di... Read More about Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future.