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The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF (2023)
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Bould, M. (2023). The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF. Science Fiction Film and Television, 16(3), 251–275. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2023.15

If the Anthropocene is the unconscious of the art, literature, and media of our time, then sf films that are not overtly about climate change will nonetheless express Anthropocenic concerns. In Marjorie Prime (2017), an intense inward focus on the do... Read More about The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF.

Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk (2023)
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Bould, M. (2023). Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk. American Literary History, 35(2), 1107-1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad069

We live in perilous times. Atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise, and with them global temperatures. Business-as-usual immiserates and impoverishes us all, depleting soil and water, melting glaciers and ice caps, acidifying oceans, deforesting, des... Read More about Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk.

Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs (2019)
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Bould, M. (2019). Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs. Science Fiction Film and Television, 12(2), 171-193. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2019.11

© Liverpool University Press. This article is concerned with questions of history, memory and meaning, and with the construction of Afrofuturism as both an archive and a living tradition. It will begin by outlining the origins of the term, and consid... Read More about Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs.

From world sf (via, if we must, World Sf) to world-sf: An introduction (2017)
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Bould, M. (2017). From world sf (via, if we must, World Sf) to world-sf: An introduction

This article situates the recent turn to sf from outside the America-British tradition within broader developments in American Studies, Comparative Literature and World Literature. Building on the work of WReC, it argues that the next stage for sf st... Read More about From world sf (via, if we must, World Sf) to world-sf: An introduction.

Dulltopia (2017)
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Bould, M. (2017). Dulltopia

This essay questions Fredric Jameson's and Slavoj Zizek's recent claims that contemporary dystopias are just plain boring. It argues that if they are right, then we must dive deeper into boredom to locate dystopian critique of catastrophic neoliberal... Read More about Dulltopia.

Review essay: ‘Max Sexton and Malcolm Cook, Adapting Science Fiction to TV: Small Screen, Expanded Universe, Steven Gil, Science Wars through the Stargate: Explorations of Science and Society in Stargate SG-1 and Douglas and Shea T. Brode, eds, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Cast Adventures’ (2017)
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Bould, M. (2017). Review essay: ‘Max Sexton and Malcolm Cook, Adapting Science Fiction to TV: Small Screen, Expanded Universe, Steven Gil, Science Wars through the Stargate: Explorations of Science and Society in Stargate SG-1 and Douglas and Shea T. Brode, eds, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Cast Adventures’. Critical Studies in Television, 12(3), 315-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602017716539e

Review essay

African science fiction 101 (2015)
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Bould, M. (2015). African science fiction 101

Critical-historical overview of science fiction from Africa

Introduction - SF Now (2014)
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Bould, M., & Williams, R. (2014). Introduction - SF Now. Paradoxa, 26,

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.

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)
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Bould, M. (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. Science Fiction Film and Television, 7(2), 265-286. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2014.14

Review essay of four recent books on Doctor Who

Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper (2014)
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Bould, M. (2014). Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper. Science Fiction Studies, 123,

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.