Steampunk Film: A Critical Introduction

Author:   Robbie McAllister (Staffordshire University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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9781501331213


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   07 March 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Robbie McAllister (Staffordshire University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.574kg
ISBN:  

9781501331213


ISBN 10:   1501331213
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   07 March 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Steampunk Goes to the Movies: The Birth of a Genre Identification and Definition (1.A.) Entering the Mainstream (1.B.) Steampunk as Genre Cinema 9 (1.C.) Prototype to Archetype: Collating Steampunk in Film (1.D.) 2. Reengineered and Repurposed: Steampunk as Adaptation Adaptation and Reception: `Sticking-Up' The Wild Wild West (2.A.) Auteur-ity and Authority: Inferring Legitimacy on the Adaptation (2.B.) Adaptation, Homogenisation and the Blockbuster (2.C.) Adaptation and the Transmedia `Mash-Up' (2.D.) `Steampunking': Genre as Adaptive Methodology (2.E.) 3. Dreams of Steam: Nostalgia for an Age of Imagined Industry Spectacular Machines: The Nuts and Bolts of the Steampunk Skin (3.A.) Technological Virtues: The Wonders and Horrors of Mechanical Progress (3.B.) Craftsmanship and Mechanical Mastery (3.C.) Cinematic Production and the Steampunk Object (3.D.) 4. Historical Identities: Representation in the Steampunk Empire Visions of Antiquity and the Fashion of History (4.A.) Global Industries: Colonialism and National Heritage (4.B.) Social Problem Cinema: Gender and Race in Steampunk's Histories (4.C.) Mechanical Bodies and Electric Souls: Assembling the Steampunk Cyborg (4.D.) 5. Clockwork Modernities: Tinkering with Time in a Steampunk Age Rationality, Reason and Industrial Fantasies (5.A.) Magical Machines and the Technological Occult (5.B.) Postmodernity and the New Real (5.C.) Industrial Renascence: The Persistence of Modernity (5.D.) Beyond Space and Time: Exploring Alternative Modernities (5.E.) 6. Gearing Down: Making the Past Present in Steampunk Cinema Works Cited Bibliography

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While academics have engaged with steampunk as a subject, none has explored film in the depth that this book does. Film is used here to elucidate what steampunk is and what its attitude to technology and design can tell us about contemporary cultural attitudes to technology and society. * Jeanette Atkinson, Research Development Advisor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *


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Robbie McAllister is a lecturer in Film at Leeds Trinity University, UK, where he teaches courses focused upon the film industry and contemporary media change. His research has evolved from an interest in Gothic horror into studies of steampunk's emergence within contemporary pop-culture.

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