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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)
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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)
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)
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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)
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.

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.

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)
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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

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

Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories (2011)
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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)
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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

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

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

Overview of gentleman-criminal films

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)
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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.

Transformers (2008)
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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)
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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.

Film neige: Noir + snow (2008)
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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)
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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.