Science Fiction against the Margins

Cinematic Futures, Global Imaginaries

AvChon A. Noriega,Maya Montañez Smukler

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Explores independently produced media that uses science fiction to address societal and political issuesToday the genre of science fiction is widely associated with big-budget American films featuring space invaders and lab-made monsters. Outside of mainstream media, however, science fiction is often employed for political allegory, exploration of identity, and critiques of societal hierarchies and norms by diasporic, Indigenous, and independent filmmakers around the world. Science Fiction against the Margins is a compilation of fifteen essays by scholars and filmmakers that focus on B movies, television programs, independent productions, and experimental film, video, and media installations. Addressing four thematic areas—Outer Space/Out of Space, Imagining Violent Worlds, Remembering the Future, and Crossing Borders and Time—the authors examine nontraditional science fiction films for their potential to theorize social change.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 31 mm
Vikt:748 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Science Fiction Against the Margins
Antal sidor:456
Förlag:UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
ISBN:9780895512086

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Chon Noriega is a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. He is author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema and coauthor of Home—So Different, So Appealing. Maya Montañez Smukler is head of the UCLA Film and Television Archive Research and Study Center. Her book Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema received the Theater Library Association’s Richard Wall Memorial Award. Nicole Ucedo is programing coordinator at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and research and curatorial assistant on the archive’s Science Fiction against the Margins project. She is an educator and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.

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Foreword by May Hong HaDuongAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Space Overture and Chorizo Coda: An Introduction against the Margins, by Chon NoriegaPart I: Outer Space/Out of Space2. Los Angeles Sci-Fi Noir: The Bradbury Building and Its (Hidden) Latinx Contexts, by Veronica Paredes3. Men into Space and the Spaces of Postwar TV Sci-Fi, by Shawn VanCour4. Space is the Place: Black Cinema in Search of Speculative Fictions, by Ewa Drygalska5. Surface, Subterrain, Sea: The Volumetric Imagination in Recent Singaporean Science Fiction, by Jasmine Nadua TricePart II: Imagining Violent Worlds6. La jetée in Historical Time: Torture, Visuality, Displacement, by Matthew Croombs7. Remembering the Disappeared: Science Fiction Film in Postdictatorship Argentina, by Everett Hamner8. Zoom Out: Queer Apocalpyse in The Second Coming, by Amy Villarejo9. Shadows in the Valley: The In/visible Iconography and Toxic Legacy of Computation, by Steve F. AndersonPart III: Remembering the Future10. Last Angel of History: Research, Writing, Performance, by Edward George11. Black Futurist Imaginaries, by Shelleen Greene12. "Jerusalem, We Have a Problem": Larissa Sansour's Sci-Fi Trilogy and the Impetus of Dystopic Imagination, by Gil HochbergPart IV: Crossing Borders and Time13. Octavia Butler's Kindred: Adaptation, Appropriation, Disposession, by Kathleen McHugh14. Ofelia's Kiss: Racing the Sticky Fingers of Time, by Frances Negrón-Muntaner15. The Scar and the Node: Border Science Fiction and the Mis-en-scène of Globalized Labor, by Sarah Ann Wells16. Queering Asian-American Science Fiction Cinema: From The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu to Everything Everywhere All at Once, by Sean MetzgerBibliographyContributorsIllustration CreditsIndex