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Fantastically fucked-up masculinity: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2008, January). Fantastically fucked-up masculinity: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. Paper presented at Postgraduate Research Seminar Series, Bristol Business School

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.

Film neige: Noir + snow (2008)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2008). Film neige: Noir + snow

A critical introduction to the role played by snow in film noir and neo-noir.

Come alive by saying no: an introduction to Black Power Sf (2007)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2007). Come alive by saying no: an introduction to Black Power Sf. Science Fiction Studies, 34(2), 220-240

Examines a cycle of borderline sf novels produced by African American writers 1962 and 1974, which struggle to imagine the emergence of a world beyond racism.

The ships landed long ago: Afrofuturism and Black Sf (2007)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2007). The ships landed long ago: Afrofuturism and Black Sf. Science Fiction Studies, 34(2), 177-186

Science Fiction Studies 102. Volume 34, Part 2: Special 'Afrofuturism' issue (2007)
Other
Bould, M., & Shavers, R. (2007). Science Fiction Studies 102. Volume 34, Part 2: Special 'Afrofuturism' issue

Mark Bould and Rone Shavers edited this special issue of the journal Fiction Studies, devoted to afrofuturism and black sf.

All that melts into air is solid: Rematerialising capital in Cube and Videodrome (2006)
Journal Article
Vint, S., & Bould, M. (2006). All that melts into air is solid: Rematerialising capital in Cube and Videodrome. Socialism and Democracy, 20(3), 217-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300600950327

Film noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005)
Book
Bould, M. (2005). Film noir: From Berlin to Sin City. Wallflower Press

The dreadful credibility of absurd things: A tendency in fantasy theory (2002)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2002). The dreadful credibility of absurd things: A tendency in fantasy theory. Historical Materialism, 10(4), 51-88. https://doi.org/10.1163/15692060260474378

The anthropocene unconscious of African second contact narratives: District 9, Rosewater, Lagoon
Book Chapter
Bould, M. The anthropocene unconscious of African second contact narratives: District 9, Rosewater, Lagoon. In K. Lebek (Ed.), Fantastic Materials: Things and the Non-Real. Routledge. Manuscript submitted for publication

This chapter examines the ways in which anthropogenic climate destabilisation registers in three recent Africa sf texts which are not ostensibly concerned with climate change, but with postcolonial 'second contact' situations in which 'first contact'... Read More about The anthropocene unconscious of African second contact narratives: District 9, Rosewater, Lagoon.

Space/race: Recovering John M. Faucette
Book Chapter
Bould, M. Space/race: Recovering John M. Faucette. In Y. Lisa, & L. I. Isiah (Eds.), Afrofuturism Through Time and Space. Ohio University Press

This essay analyses the four short novels of pioneering (but utterly forgotten) African American sf writer, John M. Faucette.

Pulp SF and its Others, 1918–39
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2017). Pulp SF and its Others, 1918–39. In R. Luckhurst (Ed.), Science Fiction: A Literary History (100-128). The British Library

Critical overview of the British scientific romance and American pulp sf in the interwar years.