All Outputs (28)

Introduction - SF Now (2014)
Journal Article

Collection of 14 essays (including Graeme MacDonald's Pioneer Award-winning 'Improbability Drives: The Energy of SF'), 5 interview (with Junot Diaz, Steve Fuller, Kij Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nnedi Okorafor) and 2 reviews, developed from the SF... Read More about Introduction - SF Now.

SF Now (Paradoxa 26) (2014)
Book

Special issue of annual journal also published as a book, co-edited by Mark Bould and Rhys Williams, collecting an array of articles, interviews and reviews on the intersections of contemporary sf and contemporary critical theory.

Exploring afrofuturism: The last angel of history (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Panel discussion of afrofuturism with Ashley Clarke, Anthony Joseph and Zoe Whitely at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder, BFI Southbank, 30 November 2014

Disability, monsters, utopia: Some lessons from Guillermo del Toro (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote address draws together material from disability studies, utopian studies and monster theory through the films of Guillermo del Toro.

Post-noir: Getting back to business (2014)
Book Chapter

‘Post-noir’ is, like all noir labels, heavily contested; even the need for it is open to question. Drawing on Fredric Jameson, Anne McClintock, Jean-François Lyotard and Kwame Anthony Appiah, this essay examines several specific – and contradictory –... Read More about Post-noir: Getting back to business.

What we owe to La Jetée (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public lecture at BFI’s Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder/Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, 11 November 2014

Visions of the future: African science fiction shorts (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Discussion with Shola Amoo, Glasgow Film Theatre/Africa in Motion, 9 November 2014

Book review: Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper, eds, '1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men' (2014)
Journal Article

Book review

Solaris (2014)
Book

Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films, Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked. This dismissal of his most generically marked film has often been accepted by those quick to embrace the image of Tarkovsky as a transcendent... Read More about Solaris.

Double consciousness and the veil of race in “The Comet”, The World, The Flesh and the Devil and I Am Legend variants (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Guest lecture/public talk at Technical University of Liberec, the Czech Republic, 30 October 2014

It’s about time: Science fiction, cinema, Source Code (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public lecture at Technical University of Liberec, the Czech Republic, 30 October 2014

The fragmented social and the episodicity of everyday life in Kontroll (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research seminar on Nimrod Antal's film about contemporary anomie

Inner space (2014)
Book Chapter

Critical overview of sf films exploring the destabilisation of human identity.

Film (2014)
Book Chapter

A critical overview of critical-theoretical understandings of sf film, especially those promulgated by critics devoted to sf as a prose fiction form. It also considers adaptation, spectacle and special effects.

Introduction to The Year of the Sex Olympics (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction to Nigel Kneale's sf television dramas. Part of Future Visions from Post-War Britain: Nigel Kneale, The Cube, 16 October 2014

Book review: Bigger on the inside, or maybe on the outside: Lindy Orthia, ed, Doctor Who and Race; Matt Hills, ed., New Dimensions of Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Time and Television; Paul Booth, ed., Doctor Who: Fan Phenomena; and Iain MacRury and Michael Rustin, The Inner World of Doctor Who: Psychoanalytic Reflections in Time and Space (2014)
Journal Article

Review essay of four recent books on Doctor Who

John Hurt (2014)
Journal Article

Entry in 'The Many Doctors Symposium'

Peter Cushing (2014)
Journal Article

Entry in 'The Many Doctors Symposium'

RIBA Forgotten Spaces 2013 exhibition (Somerset House, London) (2014)
Journal Article

Exhibition review

Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper (2014)
Journal Article

Both popular and academic criticism tend to decry sf cinema’s commitment to spectacle and special effects as intellectually stultifying and thus politically narcotizing. This article challenges the class politics of taste and the crude models of inte... Read More about Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper.