Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The science in science fiction. The sound (and look) of science -- The critical potential, pleasures and politics of "bad" science -- Unpicking science's self-image -- The social subjectivity of (mad) scientists -- The schizoid scientist, sexual terror and political complicity -- Women in the lab: body parts -- Women in the lab: scientists -- Science fiction, spectacle and self-reflexivity. Attractions -- Spectacle, special effects and affect -- Special effects and immersivity -- The sublime -- The grotesque -- Camp -- Self-reflexivity: inanimating the animate, animating the inanimate -- Self-reflexivity: surveillance, interpellation, reification, death -- Science fiction, colonialism and globalisation. Sf, cinema and the colonial imagination -- Sf's colonial imaginary -- Post-imperial melancholy in British sf-- Race and anti-imperialism in US countercultural sf -- Neo-liberalism and the sf of deindustrialisation -- Sf figurations of neoliberal spaces -- Representations of labour in contemporary sf.
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