Overview

Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction offers an examination of the central role played by urban spaces in science fictional narratives in various media forms from the literary to the ludic to the cinematic. Our contributors reflect on the ways diverse urban scenarios are central to the narratives’ science fictional imaginary and consider the pivotal roles cityscapes play in underscoring major thematic concerns, such as political struggles, social inequality and other cultural epistemologies. The chapters in the collection are divided into three sections examining the city and the body, cities of estrangement, and cities of the imagination.

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Author:   Yael Maurer ,  Meyrav Koren-Kuik
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   53
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9789004361300

ISBN 10:   9004361308
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   06 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Meyrav Koren-Kuik and Yael Maurer Part 1: The City and the Body Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground  Inbar Kaminsky Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments  Eduardo Barros-Grela Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body  Elsa Bouet Part 2: Cities of Estrangement Time Travel, Dystopia, and the Manhattan Skyscraper in George Allan England’s The Last New Yorkers and Murray Leinster’s “The Runaway Skyscraper”  Rosalind Fursland Wires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens’ London in Cyberspace  Keith Daniel Harris City of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction  Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang Spatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson  Imola Bülgözdi Part 3: Cities of Imagination “Divided Against Itself”: Dual Urban Chronotopes  Elana Gomel Experiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as ‘Citizens’ of The Hunger Games Storyworld  Natalie Krikowa ‘Final Men’, Racialised Fears & the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films  Glen Donnar Imagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series Caprica  Torsten Caeners The Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-Fictional City as a Detective Story  Shawn Edrei

Reviews

This collection is a good addition to the discourse of understanding how setting, especially urban setting, plays an important role in how we experience sf narratives - Alison Fraser, Trent University, Canada in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 47.1 2020 pp. 137-140

Author Information

Yael Maurer, Ph.D. (2009), Tel Aviv University, is a lecturer at the English and American Studies department at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has published The Science Fictional Dimensions of Salman Rushdie (2014) and articles on Hitchcock, Dickens and Philip Roth, among others. Meyrav Koren-Kuik is a doctoral candidate at the Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University. Her main research areas are Victorian literature, and Science Fiction.

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