Mark Bould's Outputs (26)

Introducing Waltz with Bashir (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

Insects and intentions: Imamura's women (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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

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

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 Contribution

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

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

Stanley Kubrick (2009)
Book Chapter

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

Steven Spielberg (2009)
Book Chapter

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

Fifty key figures in science fiction (2009)
Book

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

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

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 Contribution

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.

The cinema of John Sayles: From Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica (2009)
Book Chapter

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: Lone Star (2009)
Book

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

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

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

Bernd Herzogenrath, ed., "The films of Tod Browning" and Reynold Humphries, "The Hollywood horror film 1931-1941: Madness in a social landscape" (2009)
Journal Article

Review essay of the two named books

Book review: John T. Irwin, Unless the threat of death is behind them: Hard-boiled fiction and film noir (2009)
Journal Article