All Outputs (3)

Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things (2017)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2017). Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things. In G. J. Murphy, & L. Schmeink (Eds.), Cyberpunk and Visual Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Noting the effective exclusion of Africa from cyberpunk visions of the future, this essay considers several films from Africa, directed by Sylvestre Amoussou, Nadia El Fani, Neill Blomkamp and Jean-Pierre Bekolo, which draw upon and develop cyberpunk... Read More about Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things.

Afrofuturism in the new wave era (2017)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. Afrofuturism in the new wave era. In G. Canavan, & E. C. Link (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

This chapter provides a critical overview of the development of afrofuturism and black sf in the 1960s and 1970s across a range of media: mainstream fiction, popular music, film, comics, prose sf.

Between the sleep and the dream of reason: Dystopian science fiction cinema (2017)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2017). Between the sleep and the dream of reason: Dystopian science fiction cinema. In R. Rother, & A. Schaefer (Eds.), Future Imperfect: Science Fiction Film (42-63). Bertz/Fischer Verlag

A critical overview of dystopian sf film.