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The parapraxes of globalisation: Jules Verne and the unconscious of science fiction
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This essay argues that sf has long been engaged in mapping – often unconsciously – the processes of globalisation and empire. It illustrates this argument with an analysis of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas.

The cinema of John Sayles: from Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again
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A critical introduction to John Sayles, with Silver City as its primary example, this paper discusses the relationship between his films and American naturalist traditions, and explores language as a site of material resistance.

Science fiction, globalisation and the logic of capital
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The thin men: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist.
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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.

Journal editors' panel
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After providing an overview of the journal I co-edit, and the processes through which submissions go, I then participated in a chaired discussion (along with other journal editors who had made similar presentations) geared towards an audience of grad... Read More about Journal editors' panel.

Peristalsis, proliferation and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital sf cinema
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This paper addresses the changing nature of the cinematic experience in the era of blockbuster digital filmmaking, using Transformers as its key example.

Staging the limits to knowledge: Cognition, estrangment and spectacle in 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Beginning by questioning the possibility of judging relative scale and postion in the famous final image of the 2001, this paper challenges Carl Freedman's influential argument about the possibility of spectacle generating cognitive estrangement.

Screening Mars: Desire and denial in Aelita (Protazonov USSR 1924) and Just Imagine (Butler US 1930)
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An analysis of contrasting depictions of Mars as a location of desire rather than an astronomical venue.

The bald and the beautiful: The performativity of Billy Zane
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Analysis of Billy Zane's performance style in relation to the economics of contemporary filmmaking.

Fantastically fucked-up masculinity: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist
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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.

“Don’t give him no sass or he’ll kick yo’ ass”: Anti-imperialism and race in US countercultural Sf cinema
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