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""Like images from the James Webb space telescope, Hannah Goodwin’s Stardust brings into sharp relief an entire universe of ideas from a century-long conversation between stargazing and cinema that were previously only known in fuzzy contours. A dazzling work of scholarship that mobilizes the most ambitious promises of cinema and cinema studies to give us perceptual and imaginative access to the cosmos in all their sublime beauty, mystery, and fragility across the registers of science, eschatology, aesthetics, and popular fantasy.""—James Leo Cahill, author of Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé   ""Elegantly blending cinema history, philosophy, and science studies, Stardust powerfully delineates a cosmic impulse in filmmaking and film theory. Engaging with a rich constellation of feature and experimental films, aerial views and Hubble images, space and atomic-era records, Hannah Goodwin probes the relation between the cosmological and the apocalyptic and offers crucial insights for this moment of planetary precarity.""—Lisa Parks, University of California, Santa Barbara   ""Although there is much here to satisfy scholars of memory studies, film production and its media histories, cinema of the pre- and post-war era, and histories of science and its cultural representations, the work also offers science fiction writers and readers a glimpse at vocabularies for our underlying sense of wonder that exists beyond the commercial category.""—Strange Horizons  

"""Like images from the James Webb space telescope, Hannah Goodwin’s Stardust brings into sharp relief an entire universe of ideas from a century-long conversation between stargazing and cinema that were previously only known in fuzzy contours. A dazzling work of scholarship that mobilizes the most ambitious promises of cinema and cinema studies to give us perceptual and imaginative access to the cosmos in all their sublime beauty, mystery, and fragility across the registers of science, eschatology, aesthetics, and popular fantasy."" —James Leo Cahill, author of Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé   ""Elegantly blending cinema history, philosophy, and science studies, Stardust powerfully delineates a cosmic impulse in filmmaking and film theory. Engaging with a rich constellation of feature and experimental films, aerial views and Hubble images, space and atomic-era records, Hannah Goodwin probes the relation between the cosmological and the apocalyptic and offers crucial insights for this moment of planetary precarity."" —Lisa Parks, University of California, Santa Barbara  "

""Like images from the James Webb space telescope, Hannah Goodwin’s Stardust brings into sharp relief an entire universe of ideas from a century-long conversation between stargazing and cinema that were previously only known in fuzzy contours. A dazzling work of scholarship that mobilizes the most ambitious promises of cinema and cinema studies to give us perceptual and imaginative access to the cosmos in all their sublime beauty, mystery, and fragility across the registers of science, eschatology, aesthetics, and popular fantasy."" —James Leo Cahill, author of Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé   ""Elegantly blending cinema history, philosophy, and science studies, Stardust powerfully delineates a cosmic impulse in filmmaking and film theory. Engaging with a rich constellation of feature and experimental films, aerial views and Hubble images, space and atomic-era records, Hannah Goodwin probes the relation between the cosmological and the apocalyptic and offers crucial insights for this moment of planetary precarity."" —Lisa Parks, University of California, Santa Barbara  

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Hannah Goodwin is assistant professor of film and media studies at Mount Holyoke College.

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