Mark Bould's Outputs (12)

The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021)
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The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene – the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth – is to be found b... Read More about The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture.

SF Now (Paradoxa 26) (2014)
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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.

Solaris (2014)
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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.

Africa SF (Paradoxa 25) [Editor] (2014)
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Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012)
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This book is divided into three chapters. Chapter One addresses the often misunderstood relationship between sf and science. Instead of fruitlessly berating the genre for its scientific errors, it begins by examining the ways in which scientific-soun... Read More about Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook.

The Routledge concise history of science fiction (2011)
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Neo-noir (2009)
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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.

Fifty key figures in science fiction (2009)
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Collection of 50 critical essays on key figures in sf fiction, film, television, comics and theory.

Red planets: Marxism and science fiction (2009)
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An edited collection of 13 essays exploring the relationships between Marxism and sf literature and film.

The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2009)
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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.

The Routledge companion to science fiction (2009)
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Collection of 56 critical essays on science fiction, divided into ‘History’, ‘Theory’, ‘Issues and Challenges’ and ‘Subgenres’ sections.

Film noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005)
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