All Outputs (204)

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

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.

Symposium on Sexuality in SF (2009)
Journal Article

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.

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.

Under the neon rainbow: Colour and neo-noir (2009)
Book Chapter

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.

Journal editors' panel (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Staging the limits to knowledge: Cognition, estrangment and spectacle in 2001: A Space Odyssey (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Atrocity exhibition (2008)
Journal Article

Review of named film

Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg (2008)
Journal Article

10,000 word review of four more or less concurrent academic/critical books on Spielberg's films, including Warren Buckland, directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the contemporary blockbuster; Lester D Friedman, Citizen Spielberg; Andrew Gordon, Em... Read More about Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg.

Eraserheads (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This public panel discussed various aspects of the relationship between cinema and memory, with a particular focus on the gallery work of Pierre Bismuth and Michel Gondry. The panel was chaired by Roger Luckhurst; the co-panellists were Jonathan Romn... Read More about Eraserheads.

Monsters and modernity (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A critical overview of the repressive aspects of modernity which, in popular culture at least, tend to unleash monsters. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, this paper also considers the relationship between 'progress' and catastrophe.