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Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

Current price: $110.00
Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

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Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

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Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City--American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial , Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson Whitehead's novel , the vampire films and , Paolo Bacigalupi's novel , some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel Delany's classic . Together, the contributions in demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.

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