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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Matrix: Imagineering the world market (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote address 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 Wachows... Read More about Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Matrix: Imagineering the world market.

Serial infidelities and extraordinary renditions: The many lives of Flash Gordon (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper argues for a fresh approach to adaptation studies, using the example of a cross-media franchised character/universe to urge a move away from the fidelity fallacy and towards an understanding of adaptations as ‘supplements’ in Derrida’s Read More about Serial infidelities and extraordinary renditions: The many lives of Flash Gordon.

The cinema of John Sayles: From Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

The parapraxes of globalisation: Jules Verne and the unconscious of science fiction (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica (2009)
Book Chapter

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.

The cinema of John Sayles: from Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2009)
Book

Critical overview of John Sayles’ films and screenplays, from a Marxist theoretical perspective, which pays particular attention to naturalism, language, fantasy, utopianism and social/political critique.

Language and linguistics (2009)
Book Chapter

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.

The Routledge companion to science fiction (2009)
Book

Collection of 56 critical essays on science fiction, divided into ‘History’, ‘Theory’, ‘Issues and Challenges’ and ‘Subgenres’ sections.

Bernd Herzogenrath, ed., "The films of Tod Browning" and Reynold Humphries, "The Hollywood horror film 1931-1941: Madness in a social landscape" (2009)
Journal Article

Review essay of the two named books

Book review: John T. Irwin, Unless the threat of death is behind them: Hard-boiled fiction and film noir (2009)
Journal Article

Dandies in the underworld (2009)
Journal Article

Overview of gentleman-criminal films

Review: ‘Takayuki Tatsumi, Full Metal Apache: Transactions between cyberpunk Japan and avant-pop America’ (2009)
Journal Article

Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future (2009)
Book Chapter

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.

Symposium on Sexuality in SF (2009)
Journal Article

Stephen Shapiro, ed., "Gothic studies' 'material gothic' special issue" and "Collapse: journal of philosophical research and development volume iv: Concept horror" (2009)
Journal Article

Review of two journal issues, with special emphasis on China Miéville’s contributions to them.

Untitled short piece in fiftieth anniversay special section on the current shape of scholarship and criticism on speculative fiction (2009)
Journal Article

Opinion piece on the relative security of sf studies as a discipline and the need for it to have a social and political vision beyond its institutional function.

19th-Century sf and the discourses of science: Martin Willis, Mesmerists, monsters and machines: Science fiction and the cultures of science in the Nineteenth Century (2008)
Journal Article

Book review of named text

There is no such thing as science fiction (2008)
Book Chapter

Taking Tom Godwin’s classic – and controversial – sf short story ‘The Cold Equations’ as its starting point, this essay draws on contemporary genre theory and Bruno Latour’s science studies model of enrolment to argue that there is no such thing as s... Read More about There is no such thing as science fiction.

The thin men: 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.