Postmodernism and Science Fiction Film

Some Critical Articles on Postmodernism in Science Fiction and Science Fiction Film

Broderick,-Damien. " SF and the Postmodern." New-York-Review-of-Science-Fiction 1991 Feb, 30, 12-16.

Bukatman,-Scott . Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction. Durham, NC : Duke UP, 1993.

Byers, Thomas-B. "Terminating the Postmodern: Masculinity and Pomophobia." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 41:1 (1995 Spring), 5-33

Christie,-John-R.-R. "Science Fiction and the Postmodern: The Recent Fiction of William Gibson and John Crowley." Essays and Studies, [Leicester, England] n.s. v. 43 (1990), 34-58.

Cupp, Jeff; Avinger, Charles. "Do Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Have Postmodern Dreams? " Lit:-Literature-Interpretation-Theory 4:3, (199?) 175-84.

Everman,-Welch-D. " The Paper World: Science Fiction in the Postmodern Era." 23-38 IN McCaffery-Larry (ed.). Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. New York : Greenwood, 1986.

Freedman, Carl. "Science Fiction and Critical Theory." SFS 14 (1987): 180- 200.

Green,-Geoffrey (ed.); Greiner,-Donald-J. (ed.); McCaffery,-Larry (ed.) Postmodern Science Fiction. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 33. 3 (Spring 1992).

Gordon, Andrew. "Science Fiction Film Criticism: The Postmodern Always Rings Twice." Science Fiction Studies 14.3 (Nov. 1987): 386-91.

Hollinger, Veronica. " Specular SF: Postmodern Allegory." 29-39 IN Ruddick-Nicholas (ed.). State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film. Westport, CT : Greenwood, 1992.

McCaffery,-Larry (ed.) Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction. Durham, NC : Duke UP, 1991.

Melehy,Hassan. "Images Without: Deleuzian Becoming, Science Fiction Cinema in the Eighties." Postmodern Culture: An-Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism, 5.2 (1995 Jan), 26 paragraphs.

Pask, Kevin. "Cyborg Economies: Desire and labor in the Terminator Films." 182-98 IN Dellamora, Richard (ed.). Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the End. Philadelphia, PA : U of Pennsylvania P, 1995.

Puschmann-Nalenz,-Barbara. Science Fiction and Postmodern Fiction: A Genre Study. New York : Peter Lang, 1992.

Sedgewick,-Cristina. "The Fork in the Road: Can Science Fiction Survive in Postmodern, Megacorporate America? " Science Fiction Studies, 18:1 (53) (1991 Mar), 11-52.

Seed, David, "Mediated Realities in the Works of Philip K. Dick." 203-25 IN D'haen-Theo (ed.); Bertens-Hans (ed.). Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1995.

Sobchack, Vivian. Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. New York: Ungar, 1988. See especially Chapter 4, which is based on Jameson's essay on postmodernism.

Sobchack, Vivian. "Cities on the Edge of Time: The Urban Science Fiction Film." East-West Film Journal [Honolulu] 3.1 (Dec. 1988): 4-19.

Staiger, Janet. "Future Noir: Contemporary Representations of Visionary Cities." East-West Film Journal 3.1 (Dec. 1988): 20-44.

Trushell, John. "A Postmodern (Re)Turn to Forbidden Planet." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction 69 (1997 Spring), 60-67.

Frederic Jameson on Science Fiction

In chronological order from latest to earliest

"Ontology and Utopia." L'Esprit-Createur, [Lexington, KY] 34:4 (1994 Winter), 46-64.

"Critical Agendas." Science-Fiction-Studies 17:1 (50) (1990 Mar), 93-102.

"Science Fiction as a Spatial Genre: Generic Discontinuities and the Problem of Figuration in Vonda McIntyre's The Exile Waiting. Science Fiction Studies 14.1 (March 1987): 44-59.

"Shifting Contexts of Science-Fiction Theory." Science Fiction Studies 14.2 (July 1987): 241-7.

"Science Fiction and the German Democratic Republic." Science Fiction Studies 11 (1984): 194-9.

Review of book detailing history of SF in East Germany.

"Progress versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future." Science Fiction Studies 9.2 (July 1982): 147-58.

SF Novel/SF Film." Science Fiction Studies 7.3 (Nov. 1980): 319-22.

Review of Gregg Press Series of film/novel reprints.

"Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture." Social Text 1(1979): 130-48.

"Of Islands and Trenches: Neutralization and the Production of Utopian Discourse." Diacritics 7.2 (Spring 1977), pp. 2-21.

"Science Fiction as Politics: Larry Niven." New Republic Oct 30 1976: 34-8.

"After Armageddon: Character Systems in Dr. Bloodmoney." Science Fiction Studies 2.1 (March 1975): 31- 42.

"World Reduction in LeGuin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative." Science Fiction Studies 2 (1975): 221-30.

"In Retrospect." Science Fiction Studies 1 (1974): 272-6.

"Generic Discontinuities in SF: Brian Aldiss' Starship." Science Fiction Studies 1.2 (1973): 57-68.

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