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The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF (2023)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Cli-fi cinema (2023)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2023). Cli-fi cinema. In J. P. Telotte (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas (52-70). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.5

This chapter outlines the relationship between science fiction (sf) and climate fiction, both literary and cinematic, and urges a broader understanding of what it means to tell stories about anthropogenic climate destabilization. It considers a wide... Read More about Cli-fi cinema.

Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs (2019)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things (2017)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2017). Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things. In G. J. Murphy, & L. Schmeink (Eds.), Cyberpunk and Visual Culture. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Noting the effective exclusion of Africa from cyberpunk visions of the future, this essay considers several films from Africa, directed by Sylvestre Amoussou, Nadia El Fani, Neill Blomkamp and Jean-Pierre Bekolo, which draw upon and develop cyberpunk... Read More about Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things.

Dulltopia (2017)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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

Afrofuturism in the new wave era (2017)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. Afrofuturism in the new wave era. In G. Canavan, & E. C. Link (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

This chapter provides a critical overview of the development of afrofuturism and black sf in the 1960s and 1970s across a range of media: mainstream fiction, popular music, film, comics, prose sf.

Paying freedom dues: Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation sf (2016)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2016). Paying freedom dues: Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation sf. In E. Mazierska, & A. Suppia (Eds.), Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema (72-97). Wayne State University Press

This chapter traces the relationship between Marxism and black radical theory and practice in America, noting the frequent presence of sf imagery at the intersection. It then outlines the development of blaxploitation and establishes a hitherto unrem... Read More about Paying freedom dues: Marxism, black radicalism, and blaxploitation sf.

Video nasties (2015)
Other
Bould, M. (2015). Video nasties

Member of panel discussion before UK premiere of Joe D’Amato’s uncut Anthropophagus at The Cube

The coy cult text: The Man Who Wasn’t There as noir SF (2015)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2015). The coy cult text: The Man Who Wasn’t There as noir SF. In J. Telotte, & G. Duchovnay (Eds.), Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text. Liverpool University Press

Situates the Coen brothers' film in relation to the intersections of film noir and science fiction, uncovering its latent science-fictionality.

Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick (2015)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2015). Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick. In S. Schlensag, & A. Dunst (Eds.), The World According to Philip K. Dick (119-136). Palgrave Macmillan

This essay proposes a slipstream cinema along the lines of slipstream fiction proposed by Bruce Sterling - and suggests that it is where we might find the cinematic legacy of Philip K Dick, rather than in the typically disappointing adaptations of hi... Read More about Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick.

The futures market: American utopias (2015)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2015). The futures market: American utopias. In E. C. Link, & G. Canavan (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (83-98). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Critical-historical overview of American utopian texts, from The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations to the current post-genre tumult.

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

Critical-historical overview of science fiction from Africa

Introduction - SF Now (2014)
Journal Article
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.

SF Now (Paradoxa 26) (2014)
Book
Bould, M., & Williams, R. (2014). M. Bould, & R. Williams (Eds.), SF Now (Paradoxa 26). Paradoxa

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
Bould, M. (2014, November). Exploring afrofuturism: The last angel of history. Presented at Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder, BFI Southbank, UK

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
Bould, M. (2014, November). Disability, monsters, utopia: Some lessons from Guillermo del Toro. Presented at Disability Studies/Science Fiction, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

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

What we owe to La Jetée (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, November). What we owe to La Jetée. Presented at Sci-Fi – Days of Fear and Wonder/Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, UK

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

Post-noir: Getting back to business (2014)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2014). Post-noir: Getting back to business. In H. B. Pettey, & R. B. Palmer (Eds.), International Noir. Edinburgh University Press

‘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.

Visions of the future: African science fiction shorts (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, November). Visions of the future: African science fiction shorts. Presented at Africa in Motion, Glasgow Film Theatre, Scotland, UK

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

Solaris (2014)
Book
Bould, M. (2014). Solaris. London: BFI Palgrave

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.

It’s about time: Science fiction, cinema, Source Code (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, October). It’s about time: Science fiction, cinema, Source Code. Presented at Public lecture, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic

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
Bould, M. (2014, October). The fragmented social and the episodicity of everyday life in Kontroll. Paper presented at Research seminar, Technical University of Liberec, the Czech Republic

Research seminar on Nimrod Antal's film about contemporary anomie

Inner space (2014)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2014). Inner space. In J. Bell (Ed.), Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder - A BFI Compendium. Sight & Sound

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

Film (2014)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2014). Film. In R. Latham (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Oxford University Press

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
Bould, M. (2014, October). Introduction to The Year of the Sex Olympics. Presented at Future Visions from Post-War Britain, The Cube, Bristol, UK

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

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

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
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

Alien cultures, and others (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, May). Alien cultures, and others. Presented at Shezad Dawood exhibition, The Parasol Unit: Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK

Public lecture to accompany Shezad Dawood exhibition at The Parasol Unit: Foundation for Contemporary Art, London 8 May 2014

Introduction to John Sayles' Matewan (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2014, March). Introduction to John Sayles' Matewan. Presented at The 3rd Annual Bristol Radical Film Festival, Bristol, UK

Introduction to Matewan for The 3rd Annual Bristol Radical Film Festival, 9 March 2014

Introduction to Tsukamoto Shinya’s Denchu Kozo No Boken, Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Ben Rivers’ Terror! at Avant-Goth: Avant-garde Engagements with Gothic and Horror. Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image/British Film Institute, 23 November 2013 (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Bould, M. Introduction to Tsukamoto Shinya’s Denchu Kozo No Boken, Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Ben Rivers’ Terror! at Avant-Goth: Avant-garde Engagements with Gothic and Horror. Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image/British Film Institute, 23 November 2013. 23 November 2013 - 23 November 2013. (Unpublished)

Eat Drink Man Robot: Ordinary science fiction (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2013, April). Eat Drink Man Robot: Ordinary science fiction. Presented at The Science Fiction Studies Symposium/ The 2013 J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, USA

The stuff (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). The stuff. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2 (189-190). Intellect

The omega code/Megiddo: The omega code 2 (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). The omega code/Megiddo: The omega code 2. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of American Independent Cinema, volume 2 (296-298). Intellect/Chicago UP

Review essay: The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara collection (Aru kyouhaku/Intimidation, Kyonetsu no kisetsu/The Warped Ones, Nikui an-chikushô/I Hate But Love, Kuroi taiyô/Black Sun, Ai no kawaki/The Thirst for Love) (2013)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2013). Review essay: The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara collection (Aru kyouhaku/Intimidation, Kyonetsu no kisetsu/The Warped Ones, Nikui an-chikushô/I Hate But Love, Kuroi taiyô/Black Sun, Ai no kawaki/The Thirst for Love). Film International, 62, 54-58

Q-The winged serpent (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). Q-The winged serpent. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of American Independent Cinema, volume 2 (187-188). Intellect/Chicago UP

I drink your blood (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). I drink your blood. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of American Independent Cinema, volume 2 (184-185). Intellect/Chicago UP

The Crow (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). The Crow. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of American Independent Cinema, volume 2 (82-84). Intellect/Chicago UP

Bound (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). Bound. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of American Independent Cinema, volume 2 (209-211). Intellect/Chicago UP

Born in flames (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). Born in flames. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of American Independent Cinema, volume 2 (337-338). Intellect/Chicago UP

Blood simple (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). Blood simple. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of American Independent Cinema, volume 2 (207-208). Intellect/Chicago UP

Billy Jack (2013)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2013). Billy Jack. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of American Independent Cinema, volume 2 (309-310). Intellect/Chicago UP

Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, November). Slipstream cinema: Dick without the Dick. Presented at Worlds Out of Joint: Re-Imagining Philip K. Dick, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Cinema as/of time travel (2012)
Other
Bould, M. (2012). Cinema as/of time travel. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Public lecture and introduction to Alain Resnais’ Je t’aime, je t’aime

The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, June). The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction. Presented at The Martians of Africa: Reading anti-colonial and post-colonial cinema as science fiction, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Workshop on Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’ Les statues meurent aussi and Ousmane Sembene’s La noire de…

Philip K. Dick’s Valis (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, June). Philip K. Dick’s Valis. Presented at Philip K. Dick’s Valis

Public talk and discussion

Sf and the short film (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2012, March). Sf and the short film. Presented at 33rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida

Plenary panel

China Miéville, Architeuthis Cadre (2012)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2012). China Miéville, Architeuthis Cadre. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 23(3), 374-376

Introduction

From Llanfihangel Crucorney and Zagreb to the Stars!: Andrew Milner, ed., Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia and Darko Suvin, Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology (2012)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2012). From Llanfihangel Crucorney and Zagreb to the Stars!: Andrew Milner, ed., Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia and Darko Suvin, Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology. Science Fiction Studies, 117, 304-312

Review essay

Political readings of the fantastic (2012)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2012). Political readings of the fantastic. In E. James, & F. Mendlesohn (Eds.), Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (102-112). Cambridge University Press

Globalised labour and world Sf cinema (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2011, November). Globalised labour and world Sf cinema. Paper presented at The Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS

Class, control and clones (panel discussion) (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2011, August). Class, control and clones (panel discussion). Presented at Class, Control and Clones’, Out of this World exhibition, British Library, London, UK

Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories (2011)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2011). Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories. Extrapolation, 50(2), 307-325. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.10

A critical account of China Miéville’s King Rat and the stories in Looking for Jake, which considers contemporary attempts to anatomise the fantastic and draws on the theorisations of metaphor to open up a new approach to fantastic texts.

Review essay: Spectacle, apocalypse and the telepathic fruitarian pacifists from Mars: Atlantis (Blom Denmark 1913), Verdens undergang (Blom Denmark 1916) and Himmelskibet (Holger-Madsen Denmark 1918) (2011)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2011). Review essay: Spectacle, apocalypse and the telepathic fruitarian pacifists from Mars: Atlantis (Blom Denmark 1913), Verdens undergang (Blom Denmark 1916) and Himmelskibet (Holger-Madsen Denmark 1918). Science Fiction Film and Television, 4(1), 107-115. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2011.7

Doctor Who: Adaptations and flows (2011)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2011). Doctor Who: Adaptations and flows. In J. P. Telotte, & G. Duchovny (Eds.), Science Fiction Film, Television and Adaptation: Across the Screens (143-163). Routledge

Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life. In G. Murphy, & S. Vint (Eds.), Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives (116-134). Routledge

This essay argues that the fantasies of disembodied flight evident in sf since the genre's inception become an explicit, and largely uncritical, metaphor for supposedly 'friction-free' capital-in-circulation in cyberpunk fiction of the 1980s and 1990... Read More about Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life.

Angel of Vengeance (aka Ms.45) (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Angel of Vengeance (aka Ms.45). In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (150-151). Intellect

Bone (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Bone. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (47-48). Intellect

God told me to (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). God told me to. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (155-156). Intellect

It's alive (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). It's alive. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (156-157). Intellect

Primer (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Primer. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (194-195). Intellect

Editors panel (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2010, March). Editors panel

Film review: Eden Log (2010)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2010). Film review: Eden Log. Science Fiction Film and Television, 3(1), 157-161

Harold and Maude (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Harold and Maude. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (169-171). Intellect

I woke up early the day I died (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). I woke up early the day I died. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (307-308). Intellect

Killer of sheep (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Killer of sheep. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (53-55). Intellect

Medium cool (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Medium cool. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (308-310). Intellect

Poison (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Poison. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (234-236). Intellect

Watermelon man (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Watermelon man. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (60-61). Intellect

Introducing Waltz with Bashir (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, October). Introducing Waltz with Bashir. Presented at Compass of Desire Film Festival, Trinity Centre, Bristol

This short talk introduces the feature-length Lebanese animation, Waltz with Bashir.

Insects and intentions: Imamura's women (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, October). Insects and intentions: Imamura's women. Presented at Pigs, Eels and Insects: Reassessing the Legacy of Shohei Imamura, Arnolfini, Bristol

This paper explores Imamura's response to post-war socio-cultural changes in Japan that stem from the 'female equality' provisions in the US-authored constitution and the US's ideological attack on the traditional Japanese family structure.

Parallax views: An introduction (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., Glitre, K., & Tuck, G. (2009). Parallax views: An introduction. In M. Bould, K. Glitre, & G. Tuck (Eds.), Neo-noir (1-10). London: Wallflower Press

Introduction to the edited collection, Neo-Noir, exploring issues around noir and genre as well as outlining the aims and content of the book.

Neo-noir (2009)
Book
Bould, M., Glitre, K., & Tuck, G. (. (2009). Neo-noir. London: Wallflower

Wide-ranging collection on Neo-Noir cinema. Combines genre, major conventions (femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city, the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour) stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic a... Read More about Neo-noir.

The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. In M. Bould, K. Glitre, & G. Tuck (Eds.), Neo-noir (221-239). Wallflower

Considers anorexia as a model of late-capitialist subjectivity through a consideration of the bodies of Brad Pitt and Christian Bale.

Powell, Pressburger and Peeping Tom (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, September). Powell, Pressburger and Peeping Tom. Presented at The Screen at Hay Festival of British Cinema, Hay-on Wye, Hay-on-Wye

This talk provided a career overview of Powell, especially his collaborations with Pressburger, and a critical introduction to Peeping Tom in relation to Powell's other films, genre and psychoanalytic theory.

Fritz Lang (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Fritz Lang. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (131-136). Routledge

Overview of Lang’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Stanley Kubrick (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Stanley Kubrick. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (126-131). Routledge

Overview of Kubrick’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Steven Spielberg (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Steven Spielberg. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (200-205). Routledge

Overview of Spielberg’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Fifty key figures in science fiction (2009)
Book
Bould, M., Butler, A. M., Roberts, A., & Vint, S. (2009). Fifty key figures in science fiction. Routledge

Collection of 50 critical essays on key figures in sf fiction, film, television, comics and theory.

Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo. In M. Bould, & C. Mieville (Eds.), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (1-26). Pluto Press (UK)

This essay 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 Wachowski brother... Read More about Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo.

Red planets: Marxism and science fiction (2009)
Book
Bould, M., & Miéville, C. (2009). Red planets: Marxism and science fiction. Pluto Press (in the UK); Wesleyan University Press (in the US)

An edited collection of 13 essays exploring the relationships between Marxism and sf literature and film.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Matrix: Imagineering the world market (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, June). Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Matrix: Imagineering the world market. Presented at 'The Future Ain't What it Used to Be: Interactions of Past, Present and Future in Literature and Visual Media' Conference, University of Dundee

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
Bould, M. (2009, May). Serial infidelities and extraordinary renditions: The many lives of Flash Gordon. Paper presented at Science Fiction across Media: Adaptation/Novelisation Conference, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

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
Bould, M. (2009, May). The cinema of John Sayles: From Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again. Presented at Marxism and Culture Seminar Series, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

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
Bould, M. (2009, May). The parapraxes of globalisation: Jules Verne and the unconscious of science fiction. Paper presented at Extraordinary Voyages: Jules Verne and Beyond - the 2009 J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California at Riverside

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
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica. In W. J. Burling (Ed.), Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical essays (257-273). McFarland

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
Bould, M. (2009, March). The cinema of John Sayles: from Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again. Paper presented at Research Seminar, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading

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
Bould, M. (2009). The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star. Middlesex: Wallflower Press

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
Bould, M. (2009). Language and linguistics. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), The Routledge companion to Science Fiction (225-235). Routledge

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
Bould, M., Butler, A. M., Roberts, A., & Vint, S. (2009). The Routledge companion to science fiction. Routledge

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

Dandies in the underworld (2009)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2009). Dandies in the underworld

Overview of gentleman-criminal films

Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future. In L. White, & C. Pajaczkowska (Eds.), The Sublime Now (269-285). Cambridge Scholars

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.

There is no such thing as science fiction (2008)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2008). There is no such thing as science fiction. In J. Gunn, M. S. Barr, & M. Candelaria (Eds.), Reading Science Fiction (43-51). Palgrave Macmillan

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
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2008, November). The thin men: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. Paper presented at The Fith Annual Historical Materialism Conference, University College, London

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
Bould, M. (2008, October). Journal editors' panel. Paper presented at Film & History Biennial: Film and Science Fictions, Documentaries and Beyond Conference, Univeristy of Chicago, USA

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
Bould, M. (2008, October). Staging the limits to knowledge: Cognition, estrangment and spectacle in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Paper presented at Film & History Biennial: Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond Conference, University of Chicago

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
Bould, M. (2008). Atrocity exhibition. Science Fiction Film and Television, 1(2), 359-360

Review of named film

Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg (2008)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2008). Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg. Science Fiction Film and Television, 1(2), 303-325. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.1.2.7

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
Bould, M. (2008, September). Eraserheads. Presented at BFI Southbank Public Panel Discussion, BFI Southbank, London

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
Bould, M. (2008, August). Monsters and modernity. Presented at Silicon Knights Games Developers, St. Catherines, Ontario

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.

Peristalsis, proliferation and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital sf cinema (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, July). Peristalsis, proliferation and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital sf cinema. Paper presented at Science Fiction Research Association 2008 Conference, University of Kansas

This paper addresses the changing nature of the cinematic experience in the era of blockbuster digital filmmaking, using Transformers as its key example.

Reading science fiction (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, July). Reading science fiction. Presented at Science Fiction Research Association 2008 Conference, University of Kansas, USA

After an initial short presentation on the failure of sf studies to engage with issues emerging in genre studies over the last decade or so, I participated in a chaired discussion concerning this and presentations by other panellists.

Science fiction television in the United Kingdom (2008)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2008). Science fiction television in the United Kingdom. In J. P. Telotte (Ed.), The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader (209-230). The University Press of Kentucky

A critical overview of British television sf, from 1938 to the present day, with special attention to the ways in which it has articulated the UK’s shifting position in global politics and economics.

The bald and the beautiful: The performativity of Billy Zane (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, May). The bald and the beautiful: The performativity of Billy Zane. Paper presented at Cine-Excess II: The 2nd International Conference on Global Cult Film Traditions, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Analysis of Billy Zane's performance style in relation to the economics of contemporary filmmaking.

Proliferation, peristalsis and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital SF cinema (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, April). Proliferation, peristalsis and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital SF cinema. Presented at Narratives in Transition: Literary and Cultural Change since 1989 Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London

This paper addresses the changing nature of the cinamatic experience in the era of blockbuster digital filmamking, using Transformers as its key example.

Transformers (2008)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2008). Transformers. Science Fiction Film and Television, 1(1), 163-167

Review of named film

Arthur C. Clarke's Vision of Benevolent Empire (2008)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2008). Arthur C. Clarke's Vision of Benevolent Empire

An obituary of Arthur C. Clarke, with a critical focus on his treatment of imperialism/colonialism.

SF histories (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, March). SF histories. Presented at State of the Art: Science Fiction Histories Conference, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

Mark Bould was one of four closing plenary panel members at this conference. The closing panel sumamrised the key ideas that emerged during the course of the conference and suggestions about their implications for future research.

Writing/Genre/History: Everyone else is wrong (and so am I) (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, March). Writing/Genre/History: Everyone else is wrong (and so am I). Presented at State of the Art: Science Fiction Histories Conference, Curtin University of Technology, Perth

An overview of the problems involved in writing a history of a genre, drawing on debates in contemporary historiography and science studies.

Tortured torsos: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2008, March). Tortured torsos: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. Presented at Postgraduate Masterclass, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia

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.

The very modern world of Fritz Lang (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, March). The very modern world of Fritz Lang. Presented at The Very Modern World of Fritz Lang, Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia

Taking Lang's films as the pulp wing of the Frankfurt School, this lecture demonstrated that although not a Marxist Lang developed a critique of capitalist urban/industrial modernity very similar in some respects to that of Theodor Adorno.

BBC4’s Worlds of Fantasy, ‘Through the looking glass’ episode (2008)
Other
Bould, M. (2008). BBC4’s Worlds of Fantasy, ‘Through the looking glass’ episode

Mark Bould contributed to this television documentary series, which provided a discussion of China Mieville's King Rat in relation to the new weird movement in contemporary fantasy fiction and to post-Seattle and post-9/11 politics.

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 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.