Close Encounters
Film, Feminism, and Science Ficiton
Published on 11. January 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
310 pages
978-0-8166-1912-2 (ISBN)
Description
Close Encounters was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Offers new critical approaches to science fiction as represented in film, television, fan culture, and other non-literary media. Addresses the way conventional notions of sexual difference are reworked by science fiction film. Includes the complete script of Peter Wollen's 1987 film Friendship's Death.
Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Janet Bergstrom, Roger Dadoun, Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D., Henry Jenkins III, Enno Patalas, Constance Penley, Vivian Sobchak, Lynn Spigel, and Peter Wollen.
Offers new critical approaches to science fiction as represented in film, television, fan culture, and other non-literary media. Addresses the way conventional notions of sexual difference are reworked by science fiction film. Includes the complete script of Peter Wollen's 1987 film Friendship's Death.
Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Janet Bergstrom, Roger Dadoun, Harvey R. Greenberg, M.D., Henry Jenkins III, Enno Patalas, Constance Penley, Vivian Sobchak, Lynn Spigel, and Peter Wollen.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-1912-2 (9780816619122)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Janet Bergstrom is a professor in the Department of Television and Film Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Child/alien/father - patriarchal crisis and generic exchange, Vivian Sobchack; androids and androgyny, Janet Bergstrom; time travel, primal scene, and the critical dystopia, Constance Penley; reimagining the gargoyle - psychoanalytic notes on "Alien", Harvey R.Greenberg; ideal Hadaly on Villiers's "The Future Eve", Raymond Bellour; "Metropolis" - mother-city, "Mittler"and Hitler, Roger Dadoun; "Metropolis" scene 103, Enno Patalas; "Star Trek" rerun, reread, rewritten - fan writing as textual poaching, Henry Jenkins III; from domestic space to outer space - the 1960's fantastic family sit-com, Lynn Spigel; friendship's death, Peter Wollen.