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Simultaneous Worlds

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Description for Simultaneous Worlds Paperback. Editor(s): Feeley, Jennifer L.; Wells, Sarah Ann. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.

Since the 1927 release of Fritz Lang’s pioneer film Metropolis, science fiction cinema has largely been regarded a Western genre. In Simultaneous Worlds, Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells showcase authors who challenge this notion by focusing on cinemas and cultures, from Cuba to North Korea, not traditionally associated with science fiction. This collection introduces films about a metal-eating monster who helps peasants overthrow an exploitative court, an inflatable sex doll who comes to life, a desert planet where matchsticks are more valuable than money, and more.

Simultaneous Worlds is the first volume to bring a transnational, interdisciplinary lens to science ... Read more

Considering both individual films and the broader networks of production, distribution, and exhibition, Simultaneous Worlds illustrates how film industries across the globe take part in visualizing the perils of globalization and technological modernity. Ultimately, this book opens new ways of thinking about world cinema and our understanding of the world at large.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816693184
SKU
V9780816693184
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About . Ed(S): Feeley, Jennifer L.; Wells, Sarah Ann
Jennifer L. Feeley is an independent scholar. Sarah Ann Wells is assistant professor of Portuguese and Spanish at the University of Notre Dame. Contributors: Michelle Cho, McGill U; Steve Choe, U of Iowa; Hye Jean Chung, Kyung Hee U; Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., DePauw U; Pawel Frelik, Marie Curie-Sklodowska U; Everett Hamner, Western Illinois U; Nathaniel Isaacson, North Carolina ... Read more

Reviews for Simultaneous Worlds
"Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells have done a marvelous job of bringing together established scholars with emerging voices to create a unique critical collection on global science fiction cinema, which they show is neither an impossible dream nor an artificial unity, but rather a major way to think about science fiction cinema in the new millennium."—N. Katherine Hayles, ... Read more

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